Architecture for a large healthcare information system

Author

Mukherji, Raj ; Egyhazy, Csaba ; Johnson, Marco

Volume

4

Issue

6

fYear

2002

Firstpage

19

Lastpage

27

Abstract

We developed one of the three major components of an enterprise architecture, the operational architecture, for the US Department of Defense´s Military Health Systems (MHS). The MHS is an enormous operation: its electronic patient record (the Composite Healthcare System) in conjunction with other supporting systems, creates, updates, and accesses medical records for many millions of Department of Defense personnel and their families worldwide. As of 2002, the US Army, Navy, and Air Force manage as many as 154 medical treatment facilities worldwide. This article reports on our real experience and the lessons learned as we developed this system´s operational architecture.

Keywords

health care; medical information systems; military computing; records management; Composite Healthcare System; Department of Defense personnel; US Air Force; US Army; US Department of Defense Military Health Systems; US Navy; electronic patient record; enterprise architecture; large healthcare information system architecture; medical treatment facilities; operational architecture; Automation; Computer architecture; Costs; Health information management; Information systems; Investments; Management training; Medical services; Personnel; US Government;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

IT Professional

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1520-9202

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MITP.2002.1114843

Filename

1114843