Mobile multimedia medical system: design and implementation
International Journal of Mobile Communications
Experiences with Mirth: an open source health care integration engine
Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Software engineering
Sensor-based Pervasive Healthcare System: Design and implementation
Journal of High Speed Networks - Broadband Multimedia Sensor Networks in Healthcare Applications
An evaluation of hospital information systems integration approaches
Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics
HL7 Engine Module for Healthcare Information Systems
Journal of Medical Systems
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A continuous technological innovation in software has brought development in integration technologies that promise the real time enterprise-wide systems integration. Healthcare organisations continue to struggle with integration challenges. However, much confusion regarding the adoption of integration technologies still remains. To provide a clear perspective about integration technologies, a discussion is presented on these technologies such as Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and Web Services. EAI has emerged to provide significant benefits to organisations. From a technical perspective, EAI addresses integration problems at all integration levels (e.g. data level and process level) by providing a flexible and manageable IT infrastructure. From a business perspective EAI reduces the overall integration cost due to the reduction in integration time and maintenance cost. This paper attempts to present the advantages and disadvantages of these technologies. Furthermore, a comparative analysis of these technologies is presented. Thus, it can facilitate to healthcare organisations decision-makers during the adoption of integration technologies.