Enterprise Portals

The evolution of health care enterprise portals, especially Healthcare Enterprise Application Integration Portals (HEAIP) are changin" rel="nofollow">ing the way in" rel="nofollow">in which health care is bein" rel="nofollow">ing delivered. These portals offer an aggressive decentralization of the health care delivery process that is now extendin" rel="nofollow">ing in" rel="nofollow">into the eHome in" rel="nofollow">initiative. To support this discussion, search the Internet for in" rel="nofollow">information on enterpise portal management, such as can be found at the followin" rel="nofollow">ing Web sites: • Data Glider • MEDSEEK In this Discussion: • Identify some of the major components of enterprise portals. • What value do enterprise portals offer a health care delivery organization in" rel="nofollow">in terms of technical support, upgrades, and main" rel="nofollow">intenance? • How do the costs, direct and in" rel="nofollow">indirect, of enterprise portals relate to non-portal based applications? • How do HEAIPs enable large scale in" rel="nofollow">integrated HIS applications? • What factors might lead an organization to decide to adopt a HEAIP approach? What factors might steer it away from this solution? • Resources Overview Durin" rel="nofollow">ing Week 3, you will use a variety of resources, both required and supplemental, in" rel="nofollow">includin" rel="nofollow">ing various Web and video resources. The Weekly Schedule (a navigation lin" rel="nofollow">ink under Week 3) outlin" rel="nofollow">ines the resources you will need to participate in" rel="nofollow">in the Discussion and complete the Application and Group Project. This page contain" rel="nofollow">ins the Learnin" rel="nofollow">ing Resources for this week. Be sure to scroll down the page to see all of this week's assigned Learnin" rel="nofollow">ing Resources. To access select media resources, please use the media players below. ________________________________________ Media Video: Week 3 Overview Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 15 min" rel="nofollow">inutes. This video provides an in" rel="nofollow">introduction to the week's resources and assignments. Accessible player ________________________________________ Web Resource Amazon Web Services This site provides computin" rel="nofollow">ing power for small and large organizations for fees, dependin" rel="nofollow">ing on the usage. You can learn more about the multiple services offered and read case studies and white papers and access tutorials. ________________________________________ Web Resource Application Integration in" rel="nofollow">in Enterprise Portals This article describes how enterprise portals can be used as sin" rel="nofollow">ingle poin" rel="nofollow">ints of access to applications and allow not just for the presentation of in" rel="nofollow">information, but also for a deeper level of in" rel="nofollow">interoperability. By usin" rel="nofollow">ing enterprise-wide portals, in" rel="nofollow">information can be shared between applications. This article discusses how Natural Language Processin" rel="nofollow">ing (NLP) is bein" rel="nofollow">ing used today and the potentials for it. NLP is much more than speech-recognition, and this Web site lin" rel="nofollow">inks to a number of articles that explore the capabilities for usin" rel="nofollow">ing NLP in" rel="nofollow">in Artificial Intelligence. Use this Web site to support the Application this week. ________________________________________ Web Resource MEDSEEK Explore one vendor's enterprise portal management solution. This site gives examples of the different types of portals and tools available for the health care in" rel="nofollow">industry. ________________________________________ Web Resource National Cancer Institute (NCI) Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid This is the Web site for the cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG), a National Cancer Institute (NCI) in" rel="nofollow">initiative to speed research discoveries and improve patient outcomes by lin" rel="nofollow">inkin" rel="nofollow">ing researchers, physicians, and patients throughout the cancer community. Explore the lin" rel="nofollow">inks under the Capabilities menu item. ________________________________________ Web Resource Oracle Grid Computin" rel="nofollow">ing This Web site describes Oracle's Grid computin" rel="nofollow">ing products. Grid computin" rel="nofollow">ing enables groups of networked computers to be pooled so multiple applications can share resources. If you wish to register on the site, you can also watch a Webcast or read whitepapers on best practices in" rel="nofollow">in Grid computin" rel="nofollow">ing. ________________________________________ Web Resource Tech That Translates Doctors' Orders This article from Fortune Magazin" rel="nofollow">ine discusses how Natural Language Processin" rel="nofollow">ing (NLP) is bein" rel="nofollow">ing used in" rel="nofollow">in the medical in" rel="nofollow">industry to in" rel="nofollow">incorporate doctors' notes in" rel="nofollow">into Electronic Health Records (EHR). Read more about how NLP is helpin" rel="nofollow">ing to overcome some of the barriers that have slowed the conversion to EHRs. ________________________________________ Web Resource The Globus Alliance This is the Web site for the Globus Alliance, an in" rel="nofollow">international collaboration that conducts research and development to create fundamental Grid technologies. This collaboration lets people from different companies and regions share computin" rel="nofollow">ing power, databases, and other onlin" rel="nofollow">ine tools. ________________________________________ Media Video: Laureate Education (Producer). (2009). Cuttin" rel="nofollow">ing edge technology within" rel="nofollow">in healthcare IT [Video file]. Retrieved from https://class.waldenu.edu Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 2 min" rel="nofollow">inutes. Dr. Vin" rel="nofollow">incent Grasso discusses how the cuttin" rel="nofollow">ing edge health care IT applications in" rel="nofollow">introduced throughout the course will impact the delivery of care worldwide. Current projects are presented, as well as a view in" rel="nofollow">into cuttin" rel="nofollow">ing edge university-based research and development. Accessible player