Microservices-based Architectures in Healthcare: Enhancing Flexibility and Modularity of Healthcare Applications

Authors: Veeravaraprasad Pindi

Country: India

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Abstract: The aim of this paper is to explore the impact of microservices-based Architectures on flexibility and modularity in healthcare applications. Microservices-based architectures have started to influence many application development projects. The promise of independently deployable and scalable services, which are developed and managed by small autonomous teams, has captured the attention of the development community. Indeed the supremacy of this kind of architecture style gives impetus in the development of this paper in a societal relevant sector especially healthcare. In this domain, flexibility that allows for a fast and efficient response to change, as well as modularity, which can help contain the internal complexity, are considered our architectural properties [1]. Thus, from the description of three real-world applications, a set of patterns that help to support these general properties is revealed. From the above patterns, we also distill a pattern language that can be used by developers when designing and evolving the microservices-based architecture for the applications in the healthcare domain. One of the advanced architectures that has been identified to hold potential in handling some of the issues that come with large-scale and complicated software systems is the microservices-based architecture. When developing applications for the Health care centre there are a number of essential properties that ought to be considered, one of the strong requirement among them is the flexibility and modularity as this would enable the fast and convenient customization of the application so as to suit the needs in the diverse Health care centre and its continuously evolving environment. When the microservices concept is applied to the healthcare environment, the control of interfaces and overall compatibility of the services becomes an important factor with regard to the integrated functioning of all necessary services to achieve high efficiency of the system’s functioning [1]. This is good, so there is a clear separation between various sub-systems which then have well-described interfaces for interacting with other sub-systems and their environment, creating a more impervious and flexible environment for health-care software. Since the beginning, software architectures were viewed as one of the main factors, empowering the production of potent software systems. Their impact goes as far as to determine the scope of the system as well as the distribution of development tasks up to the establishment of system characteristics and up to the regulation of implementation and development. Alongside established architecture styles such as layered, n-tier, and SOA, novel architecture styles have emerged to tackle the challenges that modern software systems face [1,2]. Among these, microservices-based architectures constitute a relatively recent approach that is increasingly being used in industry. The characteristic way of decomposing systems into small services that are developed and operated by small, autonomous teams has proven to be a successful approach for systems that evolve with time.

Keywords: Microservices, Healthcare Architecture, Electronic Health Records (EHR), Predictive Analytics, Legacy System Integration

Paper Id: 230709

Published On: 2023-06-20

Published In: Volume 11, Issue 3, May-June 2023

Cite This: Microservices-based Architectures in Healthcare: Enhancing Flexibility and Modularity of Healthcare Applications - Veeravaraprasad Pindi - IJIRMPS Volume 11, Issue 3, May-June 2023.

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