Enterprise Information Architecture Reference Architecture for Electronic Health Record Development

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HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Executive Summary
The report presents analysis of electronic health record development through Enterprise
Information Architecture Reference Architecture. This approach is widely used and accepted
architecture which uses different templates that is picture which useful for depicting the overall
project from beginning phase to ending phase. The pictures are provided sequentially and they
are illustrated briefly to describe the components required in development of electronic health
record. The report also presents the benefits and challenges of Enterprise Information
Architecture Reference Architecture along with possible strategies. Finally the outcome of this
report is challenge and its mitigation strategies.
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Table of Contents
Executive Summary........................................................................................................................ii
Introduction................................................................................................................................... 1
Enterprise Information Architecture Reference Architecture........................................................1
Conceptual architecture............................................................................................................ 2
Logical architecture................................................................................................................... 5
Component Relationship........................................................................................................... 8
Component Interaction Picture...............................................................................................10
Managing and Integrating............................................................................................................12
Operational model...................................................................................................................12
Potential Challenges................................................................................................................ 14
Possible Strategies................................................................................................................... 14
Conclusion................................................................................................................................... 15
Recommendations.......................................................................................................................15
References................................................................................................................................... 16
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HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Introduction
United States Government has legislated electronic health record which will provide
advantages to customers and medical health providers. The management and maintenance will
facilitate data integration and data sharing among medical health providers. A design is
required by Australian Government to accomplish electronic health record development. The
report presents description on benefits of an architecture called Enterprise Information
Architecture Reference Architecture that will help in developing electronic health record (Da Xu
2014). This is achieved through processes that are in analytic way, assumed to be tried and true
methods. Enterprise Information Architecture Reference Architecture approach helps to
provide a design to develop building blocks from basic to more detailed building blocks for any
system. This architecture helps an organization to manage a project from beginning to end
where the project is created, maintained, used and governed through their life cycle from
perspective of bottom-up. Enterprise Information Architecture Reference Architecture is an
architecture that helps to provide view in an information-centric way of the Enterprise
Architecture (Giachetti 2016). The purpose of this report is to present an analysis of benefits
and challenges of Enterprise Information Architecture Reference Architecture to develop
electronic health record.
The outline is use of template of Enterprise Information Architecture Reference
Architecture for electronic health record. The templates are conceptual architecture, logical
architecture, component relationship picture, component interaction picture, operational
picture. The first part involves benefits of Enterprise Information Architecture Reference
Architecture and second part involves challenges of data managing and integrating.
Enterprise Information Architecture Reference Architecture
The advantages provided by Enterprise Information Architecture Reference Architecture
for developing electronic health record are as follows.
 Correspondence of enterprise- The storing of information in various locations in form of
distributed database and conflicting. This approach helps two information s to use and
understand each other’s characteristics and functionality. The interoperability approach
of enterprise helps to provides services between different information, exchange and
communicate (Romero and Vernadat 2016). The benefits provided by Enterprise
Information Architecture Reference Architecture are at three different levels that are
data, services and processes.
 Incorporation of enterprise- The objective of electronic health record is achieved by the
help of Enterprise Information Architecture Reference Architecture approach where
communication between components of enterprises is ensured. The approach of
integration of enterprise is accomplished at different levels in different ways. This
approach includes integration of physical, business and application layer. The first layer
that is physical integration consists of interconnection of devices and machines that are
connected (Cabrera et al. 2016). The second layer that is business integration consists of
management, monitoring and to control business functions and processes. The added
layer of integration is enterprise modelling that helps to accomplish persistent decision
making.
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