An Emerging Architecture for Global Health Systems

The May 5, 2009 "Statement by the President on Global Health Initiative" announced a “…new, comprehensive global health strategy...” that includes “…a more integrated approach to fighting diseases, improving health, and strengthening health systems.” This presentation will describe the innovative architecture, technologies and health systems strategies in the U.S., Europe and Asia that are already influencing the design of NHIN, PHIN and CDC BioSense, and that will provide the technical foundation for achieving the objectives of this Presidential Initiative, the WHO International Health Regulations (IHR), and the Health Metrics Network (HMN).We will describe the emerging architecture for the state-of-the-art health information systems, based on a vision of interoperable components that can be collaboratively developed and shared globally. This architecture synthesizes event-driven and service-oriented component architectures to address the needs of the global health enterprise, across healthcare delivery, health research and development, and population health. This presentation will include description of the structure of the global health enterprise architecture, discussion of standards and governance processes to ensure interoperability, the future technical infrastructure, some common components that will be necessary, and how this target architecture will operate.