The Microsoft Connected Health Framework

Architecture and Design Blueprint

The Connected Health Framework - Architecture and Design Blueprint represents a vendor-agnostic set of best practices and approach based on Services Oriented Architecture (SOA), for architecting e-Health solutions for health information networks ranging from within healthcare organizations to across multiple government agencies.

The main objectives for the Connected Health Framework - Architecture and Design Blueprint are:

• Highlight a series of best practices for service oriented health information and collaboration architecture
• Enable the development of an ecosystems of solutions developed along these guidelines

The detailed documentation is hosted on the Solution Sharing Network web site where you can participate to the discussion and provide feedback on the SolShare.net healthcare forums:

• Connected Health Framework Architecture and Design Blueprint
  • Part 1 - Introduction and overview
  • Part 2 - Business framework
  • Part 3 - Technical framework
  • Part 4 - How to use
  • Part 5 - References, checklists and further information

Additional information on the Connected Health Framework - Architecture and Design Blueprint is available below:

• Press release: Improving Delivery of Health Solutions Worldwide: Microsoft Releases Connected Health Framework Architecture and Design Blueprint
• Executive Summary
• Executive Whitepaper
• Roberto Ruggeri on the Connected Health Framework - Architecture and Design Blueprint
• Webcast and presentation