Intel Corporation has announced Intel SOA Expressway for Healthcare - software that provides an efficient way to exchange healthcare information inside hospitals and with health information networks.  This  will allow healthcare providers to more easily connect with one another so that each can provide better care while benefiting from reduced integration costs.

Till now, the sharing of patient information among healthcare network participants has been hindered by the steep costs and complexities of proprietary data and integration services.

Based on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Intel SOA Expressway for Healthcare offers a cost-efficient solution to this problem by providing an efficient and scaleable way to translate, process and connect any data format across a healthcare network.

Intel also has created a group of validated independent software vendors (ISVs) that provides best-of-breed capabilities to deploy a complete health network powered by the Intel SOA Expressway.  The software solution has been successfully piloted with several healthcare providers, including at a hospital network in Shanghai.

Shen Ping, general manager of Health Services Division at Wonders said, Information CoIntel SOA Expressway for Healthcare solved a very difficult hospital integration scenario for us, the systems integrator deploying the Shanghai health network.

Intel SOA Expressway for Healthcare provides the performance of a hardware appliance in a software form factor that offers native message acceleration for rapid data exchange, workflow management and translation to enable data exchange to and from any original format. This advance in software is an example of how technology can help improve patient care and reduce healthcare costs by streamlining information flow.