Discussion: Enterprise Portals
The evolution of health care enterprise portals, especially Healthcare Enterprise Application Integration Portals (HEAIP) are changing the way in which health care is being delivered. These portals offer an aggressive decentralization of the health care delivery process that is now extending into the eHome initiative.
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In this Discussion:
• Identify some of the major components of enterprise portals.
• What value do enterprise portals offer a health care delivery organization in terms of technical support, upgrades, and maintenance?
• How do the costs, direct and indirect, of enterprise portals relate to non-portal based applications?
• How do HEAIPs enable large scale integrated HIS applications?
• What factors might lead an organization to decide to adopt a HEAIP approach? What factors might steer it away from this solution?
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