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Telemedicine systems have been rapidly increasing in number and size over the past decades. This increasing trend intensifies the need for tele-medicine in the area of national healthcare system. The increasing size of distributed telemedicine systems creates problems of data integration, vendor lock-in, and interoperability. In this paper, we present a next generation telemedicine system architecture, which is based on service oriented architecture (SOA). We believe SOA can resolve several problems in today’s telemedicine systems. In the current infrastructure of telemedicine, several problems have been identified such as users becoming limited to a single vendor. Therefore, we performed requirements analysis and evaluation to propose a robust solution to avoid the problem of vendor locking and interoperability.
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This paper is a revised and extended version of a paper that was presented at the International Multi Topic Conference (IMTIC 2008) by Springer CCIS series and has received 13 citations so far.
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Shaikh, A. The impact of SOA on a system design for a telemedicine healthcare system. Netw Model Anal Health Inform Bioinforma 4, 15 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13721-015-0087-0
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