Intel® SOA Expressway Passes IHE North America Connectathon

By Joe Welsh (Intel) (2 posts) on March 16, 2009 at 9:45 am

In February 2009, Intel participated in IHE North America’s Connectathon. As a result, the Intel® SOA Expressway for Healthcare successfully tested the following IHE and HITSP Profiles and Actors:

IHE Profile	IHE Actor	HITSP Profile
XDS \| XDS.b	Document Source	TP 13 b
XDS \| XDS.b	Document Consumer	TP 13 b
XDS \| XDS.a	Document Source	TP 13 a
XDS \| XDS.a	Document Consumer	TP 13 a
Patient Identifier Cross-reference (PIX) - HL7 v2	Consumer	TP 22
Patient Identifier Cross-reference (PIX) - HL7 v3	Consumer
Patient Demographic Query (PDQ) - HL7 v2	Consumer	T 23
Patient Demographic Query (PDQ) - HL7 v3	Consumer
Audit Trail and Node Authentication (ATNA)	Secure Application	T 15, T 17

In future posts, I plan to discuss:

Some of these profiles, their importance and impact on interoperability
Reduced implementation time by using SOA Expressway, especially as an IHE on-ramp
Ease of using HL7 in SOA Expressway
Security aspects of SOA Expressway and how ATNA requirements were met
SOA Expressway Performance Elements
Traceability within SOA Expressway
SOA Expressway product extension to support DICOM and other healthcare related protocols

Intel SOA Expressway for Healthcare is a high-performance health information gateway from Intel, that simplifies healthcare information interoperability. It provides a configuration-centric solution to integrate islands of health data and ensure data privacy, delivers out-of-the box support for healthcare data standards, and enables healthcare organizations to service-enable their legacy Healthcare IT to interoperate with the entire healthcare enterprise. Intel® SOA Expressway for Healthcare is a specific implementation of a new product category called a SOA "soft appliance", which delivers a breakthrough in simplicity, cost and scalability for enabling high-quality health information exchange.