Enterprise Portals

The evolution of health care enterprise portals, especially  Healthcare Enterprise Application Integration Portals (HEAIP) are  changing the way in which health care is being delivered. These portals  offer an aggressive decentralization of the health care delivery process  that is now extending into the eHome initiative.

To support this discussion, search the Internet for  information on enterpise portal management, such as can be found at the  following Web sites:

https://www.influencehealth.com/

https://www.information-management.com/news/the-role-of-application-

integration-in-enterprise-portals

https://money.cnn.com/2009/04/17/technology/natural_language_tech.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2009041710

In this Discussion:

• Identify some of the major components of enterprise portals.
• What value do enterprise portals offer a health care  delivery organization in terms of technical support, upgrades, and  maintenance?
• How do the costs, direct and indirect, of enterprise portals relate to non-portal based applications?
• How do HEAIPs enable large scale integrated HIS applications?
• What factors might lead an organization to decide to  adopt a HEAIP approach? What factors might steer it away from this  solution?