SOA Consortium Releases New Podcast Featuring Ken Rubin, Chief Architect, EDS
Federal Healthcare Portfolio on “The Practical Guide for SOA in Healthcare”

Needham, MA, USA – February 17, 2009 – The SOA Consortium™ today announced that a podcast and slide deck of the presentation by Ken Rubin, Chief Healthcare Architect, EDS Federal Healthcare Portfolio, on “The Practical Guide for SOA in Healthcare,” recorded at the SOA Consortium meeting in Santa Clara in December 2008 are now available. To access the podcast, visit http://www.soa-consortium.org/pr-kr. 

Ken Rubin presented a pre-release overview of the Practical Guide to SOA in Healthcare. The Practical Guide to SOA in Healthcare, an output of the Healthcare Services Specification Project (HSSP), is a collaborative work of the OMG Healthcare Task Force & Health Level 7 (HL7). The goal of HSSP is to develop SOA specifications for health, specifically defining healthcare business services to enable interoperability between organizations across the health domain.

While not a standard, the practical guide provides context and guidance for healthcare IT organizations and professionals considering SOA. Using a fictitious example, the practical guide presents an 8-step process to establish a healthcare SOA, from enterprise architecture through sustainment, and includes valuable lessons learned.

During his talk, Rubin spoke of the current state of global healthcare, and anticipated changes with the new U.S. administration and Health IT programs. Walking through the practical guide, meeting attendees were keenly interested in the healthcare function to service mapping and the reference architecture. Rubin emphasized that the reference architecture is a starting point for people to think about the problem, and extend and amend for their own situations.

To hear Ken Rubin’s entire presentation, download the 50-minute podcast and accompanying slide presentation at http://www.soa-consortium.org/pr-kr.  To read more about this podcast or to share your views, visit the SOA Consortium’s SOA Insights blog at http://blog.soa-consortium.org. For more information on the Practical Guide for SOA in Healthcare initiative, and to download version one of the guide, please visit http://hssp.wikispaces.com/practicalguide. 

The next SOA Consortium meeting is in Washington, D.C., USA on March 25-26, 2009. Organizations interested in joining the SOA Consortium and attending the meeting should visit the website, http://www.soa-consortium.org or email info@soa-consortium.org for more information.

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