New Intel Software Connects Health Networks, Enabling Key Data Sharing in Clinical Settings

Hard Hat Area: Intel is jumping in to the integrator arena with providing a gateway for the total ISV solution...using XML parsing and other technologies...will work with most virtualization platforms such as Xen, VMWare and Microsoft virtualization...currently supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4...both Dell and HP provide the server hardware...BD

WORLD HEALTH CARE CONGRESS, Washington, D.C., April 21, 2008 – Intel Corporation today announced Intel® SOA Expressway for Healthcare, software that provides an efficient way to exchange healthcare information inside hospitals and with health information networks. The product will allow healthcare providers to more easily connect with one another so that each can provide better care while benefiting from reduced integration costs. Based on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Intel SOA Expressway for Healthcare offers a cost-efficient solution to this problem by providing an efficient and scaleable way to translate, process and connect any data format across a healthcare network.

The software solution has been successfully piloted with several healthcare providers, including at a hospital network in Shanghai. "Current validated ecosystem vendors include Apelon, Infotech Global (IGI), Initiate Systems, Oracle and Red Hat. Services provided by these vendors include controlled medical vocabulary translation, clinical patient portal applications, enterprise master patient index, clinical data repository and operating system support.

Intel SOA Expressway for Healthcare provides the performance of a hardware appliance in a software form factor that offers native message acceleration for rapid data exchange, workflow management and translation to enable data exchange to and from any original format. This advance in software is an example of how technology can help improve patient care and reduce healthcare costs by streamlining information flow.