Design and Implementation of a SOA-based Medical Grid Platform

Abstract

As the evolution of information technology goes so quickly and the network technology spread so far, those healthcare scenarios only appeared in movies are coming toward us. With the E-hospital rapid growth, var-ious types of information systems develop and use uncea-singly. However, in the hospital information system of de-velopment methods under their own way, sharing of in-formation between the systems is difficult day after day. In order to satisfy the hospital information system to the heterogeneity, interoperability, information sharing, and information integration, a kind of new software system architecture to came with the tide of fashion -- Ser-vice-Oriented Architecture (SOA) [1, 2, 6]. Our research take the SOA technology, combined with the grid based of the hospital for back-end platform—MedicalGrid [3, 8, 16, 18], provides a powerful computing capabilities, and fit with a Cross Grid Information Service (CGIS) [3] that enables Resource Brokers [9, 10, 11, 12] to get information from cross grid environments for other components. It can also provide medical care after discharge from hospital and health monitoring.