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Securing Healthcare Information Services

Healthcare Security Architecture in Service Oriented Architecture Framework (SOA).

Current healthcare IT environment support the needs for a single institution like a hospital or collection of care facilities. Healthcare services however are no longer just needed on the basis of geographic or institutional boundaries. Many healthcare services will be offered on a regional, national or maybe even an international basis, and are expanding out to the individual patient.

The fluidity of the healthcare delivery process makes the provision of healthcare and patient information a very complex venture. This complexity has led many healthcare programs both on regional or national level to follow an approach based on multiple information services working together. This is embodied in a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). In this approach the emphasis is on information services rather than information systems. This whitepaper deals with SOA in combination with the security that is crucial for the healthcare industry, called Service Oriented Security Architecture (SOSA)

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