[CAnet - news] SOA and web services for medical and government applications

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 [Rosie Lombardi is a journalist  has a very good web site on SOA for
government applications. I particularly like her recent articles in
Government CIO magazine.  A good example is how SOA web services is used by
Government Alberta to link various databases to track down dead beat dads --
BSA]

CIO Government Review on SOA
http://www.intergovworld.com/article/1cf1b5d40a01040801c4b5793333f8a2/pg1.ht
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Rosie Lombardi's web site
 http://www.rosie-lombardi.com/


Using SOA and web services to track down dead beat dads
http://www.rosie-lombardi.com/otherpubs/government/SOAblocks.html

[Some excerpts from original article--BSA]

In 2005, the Alberta Ministry of Justice deployed a SOA-based enhancement to
its maintenance enforcement program (MEP), driven by new legislation enacted
the year before. Dubbed "Deadbeat Dad" legislation, the Ministry was
concerned with finding ways to track and enforce adherence to court orders
by withholding access to government services, explains Stuart Charlton,
enterprise architect at BEA Systems Inc. in Toronto. "So if someone doesn't
pay child support, they might suspend their driver's licence."

As in other provinces, Alberta's ministries and government departments are
far from integrated. Tracking thousands of these MEP cases over time,
sometimes more than 10 years, and building in the triggers for enforcement
actions based on patterns of misbehaviour was a major system undertaking
within the Justice Ministry. But developing processes to ensure actions are
executed by a multitude of external ministries would have been a monumental
inter-departmental undertaking.

Instead of labour-intensive back-and-forth between multiple departments -
phoning, faxing, exchanging forms and information - the Ministry of Justice
used Web services to automate the workflow. 
A producer posts the services it has made available for common use - for
example, an application that identifies an Albertan as an MEP case - through
an electronic interface based on SOA standards, which can be used by any
authorized consumer using the same Web-based technology. All the various
conditions for an exchange between departments, including exceptions that
require human judgement, are agreed and scripted in advance.



A Collaborative Orthopaedic Research Environment.
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/14409/

The role of collaboration in scientific and scholarly research is changing
due to advances in Web technology. In particular, the need for collaborative
science has generated demands for working environments that facilitate human
communication and resource sharing among research communities. The
Collaborative Orthopaedic Research Environment (CORE) project provides an
infrastructure that combines clinical, educational and research activities
in a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) for orthopaedic researchers to
collaborate in the design, analysis, and dissemination of experiments. An
overview of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) concepts is presented in
this report before moving on to discuss the benefits and rationale of using
a SOA in the context of the CORE project. A user requirements study
conducted to guide the authors in designing the CORE VRE is also reported.


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