Designing Scalable and Interoperable Healthcare Application Architectures for Improved Patient Care Coordination

Authors: Veeravaraprasad Pindi

Country: India

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Abstract: The main purpose of this research is to explore how patient care can be improved through proper scalability designs and interoperability of healthcare application architectures. Scalable and interoperable healthcare application architectures are essential for designing applications that improve patient care coordination. By allowing disparate applications to communicate and share data, patient care planning and delivery across different care settings such as hospitals, clinics, and patient homes can be better coordinated. The proposed healthcare application architectures consist of three main components: the Enterprise Healthcare Cloud (EHC), Healthcare Services Platform (HSP), and Healthcare Frontend Applications (HFA). Interconnection and adaptability are two future requirements, which must be considered in all healthcare application architectures to enable the applications’ use in supporting frontline care provider organizations [1]. Even at this level of granularity, there are specific concerns that must be addressed in the architecture of any healthcare application intended to support patient care coordination and transition, in order to facilitate the patient’s progress through their course of treatment as seamlessly as possible. This paper is aimed at providing a set of best practices to help system developers create detailed, large-scale architectures for healthcare applications that will enable engaging patient care coordination activities and, therefore, enhance patient care outcomes. This incorporates the likes of the scope of different care, the phenomenon of care information integration from different sources and the capacity to model the patient care situations and the therapeutic management plans with the optimal results [1]. Moreover, the basic assumption of interoperability and scalability is respectively trying to overcome the obstacles of healthcare application settings in the various and complicated contexts of the healthcare system as well as the goal of achieving effective and fluent information sharing and cooperation between all the involved players in delivering the patient-centered healthcare services.

The conceptual recommendations suggested in this paper offer a framework for discretion to application developers in the healthcare domain in an effort to design healthcare application systems that prepare for both today’s and tomorrow’s needs of patient care. To this end, the following principles can be advanced which may help system developers to create the right healthcare application architectures to better address the futuristic patient care coordination and improvement in the patient and healthcare givers’ experiences and results [2]. A patient often requires care from multiple healthcare providers, who may be employed at different healthcare provider organizations over the course of treatment for a particular health issue. In order to alleviate the stress that such family health issues cause, both for the family and patient, as well as for the healthcare providers, enhanced patient care coordination is required. Secure messaging systems are just one type of healthcare application designed to improve patient care coordination. However, in the grand scheme of all possible healthcare applications that could be utilized to support patient care coordination, secure messaging systems are one of the simplest applications [3]. As more advanced and complex healthcare applications are developed and deployed, it is important to consider their architectural design to ensure that all stakeholders (including the patient, their family, and healthcare providers) have access to the relevant, real-time data that they need to effectively and efficiently perform their treatment-related activities.

Keywords: Healthcare Applications, Patient Care Coordination, Data Exchange, Data Integration, Performance Optimization, Electronic Health Records (EHR), Health Information Exchange (HIE), Healthcare Architecture Design

Paper Id: 1782

Published On: 2021-04-05

Published In: Volume 9, Issue 2, March-April 2021

Cite This: Designing Scalable and Interoperable Healthcare Application Architectures for Improved Patient Care Coordination - Veeravaraprasad Pindi - IJIRMPS Volume 9, Issue 2, March-April 2021.

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