Crichton, RMoodley, DPillay, ASeebregts, CJ2013-01-282013-01-282012-08Crichton, R, Moodley, D, Pillay, A and Seebregts, CJ. 2012. An interoperability architecture for the health information exchange in Rwanda. 2nd International Symposium on the Foundations of Health Information Engineering and Systems - FHIES, Paris, France, 27-28 August 2012http://www.cair.za.net/sites/default/files/outputs/fhies2012_submission_18.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10204/64532nd International Symposium on the Foundations of Health Information Engineering and Systems - FHIES, Paris, France, 27-28 August 2012Rwanda, one of the smallest and most densely populated countries in Africa, has made rapid and substantial progress towards designing and deploying a national health information system. One of the challenging aspects of the system is the design of an architecture to support: interoperability between existing health information systems already in use in the country; incremental extension into a fully integrated national health information system without substantial reengineering; and scaling, from a single district in the initial phase, to national level without requiring a fundamental change in technology or design paradigm. This paper describes the key requirements and the design of the current architecture using ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010 standard architecture descriptions. The architecture is based on the Enterprise Service Bus architectural model. We also describe a partial implementation of the architecture, and give a preliminary analysis based on our experiences.enRwanda health systemInteroperabilityNational health information system architectureEnterprise service busHealth information systemsConference PresentationCrichton, R., Moodley, D., Pillay, A., & Seebregts, C. (2012). An interoperability architecture for the health information exchange in Rwanda. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/6453Crichton, R, D Moodley, A Pillay, and CJ Seebregts. "An interoperability architecture for the health information exchange in Rwanda." (2012): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/6453Crichton R, Moodley D, Pillay A, Seebregts C, An interoperability architecture for the health information exchange in Rwanda; 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/6453 .TY - Conference Presentation AU - Crichton, R AU - Moodley, D AU - Pillay, A AU - Seebregts, CJ AB - Rwanda, one of the smallest and most densely populated countries in Africa, has made rapid and substantial progress towards designing and deploying a national health information system. One of the challenging aspects of the system is the design of an architecture to support: interoperability between existing health information systems already in use in the country; incremental extension into a fully integrated national health information system without substantial reengineering; and scaling, from a single district in the initial phase, to national level without requiring a fundamental change in technology or design paradigm. This paper describes the key requirements and the design of the current architecture using ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010 standard architecture descriptions. The architecture is based on the Enterprise Service Bus architectural model. We also describe a partial implementation of the architecture, and give a preliminary analysis based on our experiences. DA - 2012-08 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Rwanda health system KW - Interoperability KW - National health information system architecture KW - Enterprise service bus KW - Health information systems LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2012 T1 - An interoperability architecture for the health information exchange in Rwanda TI - An interoperability architecture for the health information exchange in Rwanda UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/6453 ER -