179340 Application of SOA and their role in enhancing public health Web sites

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Muhammad Rabi, PhD , Global Health Sector, SRA International, Rockville, MD
John Robinette, MS , Global Health Sector, SRA International, Rockville, MD
The emergent Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) technologies stand to change the way people develop, interact with and receive health information via the Web.

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is defined as an architecture style that packages business processes as published ‘services' available for invocation. This will allow different applications to exchange data independent of the underlying systems or implementation languages.

The INFO Project, based at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center for Communication Programs, envisions a world of interconnected communities where shared reproductive health information improves and saves lives.

To realize the INFO Project's vision— INFO developed middle-ware tools that allows developers of public health sites to utilize and share modifications to its flagship database of six different resources including bibliographic records of latest research in the field of Family Planning and Reproductive Health.

This session will focus on how these various technologies have been utilized so far and suggestions for best practices moving forward.

Learning Objectives:
Understand SOA technologies—such as Web Services, WSDL, XSD, and UDDI. Evaluate user needs to identify the most appropriate SOA tool(s) to use. Discuss the existing and future role of SOA in health information communication and collaboration.

Keywords: Public Health Informatics, Information Technology

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: Developed the tools documented in the abstract.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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