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Health Information Architecture, Data Modeling, and Enterprise Architecture Planning

Enterprise Architecture Planning

(EAP)

EAP in Healthcare

 

The Key Architectures:

- Business

- Information

- Application

- Technology

 

Role of Modeling

 

Making it all fit together

 

References

 

Links

 

 

 

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 Much continues to be published in the trade and technical press about the global interaction among 21st Century organizations.  This interaction has evolved principally as an impact of the Internet, where this technology has torn down the barriers of time and space that previously isolated organizations, work centers, and individuals.  In this World, seamless, unbounded interaction is fast becomming essential to survival and prosperity of organizations and individuals.  Enterprise Architecture Planning (EAP) is the key step in creating this interaction both within the organization and globally.

All things have a basic structure about them, sea shells, trees, landforms, buildings and the organization.  This is their architecture.   In the informatics world, the enterprise architecture provides the underlying structure for managing:

  • change throughout the organization, especially in a volatile environment,
  • the intellectual capital and knowledge-base of the organization,
  • the integration of technology with human resources and information to create complete systems, and
  • seamless incorporation of this integrated technology to achieve the business goals of the organization.

Creating, implementing, and managing the organization's enterprise architecture requires an inter-disciplinary approach, integrating numerous and diverse processes, tools, and human skillsets. 

Many experts have noted the first step in building the future is to envision the future.  EAP provides the high level blueprint, as a collection of related models, of where the organization is and where it should be.  Taken together, the collection of "As-Is" and "To-Be" models provides the roadmap for the enterprise to build its future.

More to come....