Modular Integration Through Aspects: Making Cents of Legacy Systems

Recently, Continua Health Alliance has brought together a powerhouse team, including Cisco, IBM, Motorola and others, for personal telehealth products and services. This team will provide commodity interoperable healthcare devices and services by introducing new connectivity standards for health management tools. But the costs of integrating and configuring disparate system services have proven to be prohibitive in this domain – healthcare processes require extreme agility to assimilate information across traditional boundaries. As a result, these tools must work effectively with dynamic business processes that often elude cost-effective integration themselves. This creates a requirement for software to be fluidly configurable and interoperable in order to best support personalized care with truly integrated solutions. We believe that, without a new technology for the seamless integration of features within healthcare devices, costs associated with attempts to fuse IT with dynamic b...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: HICSS
• Authors: Celina Gibbs, Daniel Lohmann, Chunjian Robin Liu, Yvonne Coady
• Keywords: Biometrics, Dynamic Business Processes, Healthcare Devices, HICSS 2007, System Sciences, We Believe