Developing an Application Integration Strategy for Electronic Prescription System

Application integration is a strategic activity and a technology set that can enable an organization to run much more efficiently, and thus provide a significant competitive advantage. Today, in the emergence of many new technologies based on Web services, there are still more approaches for application integration each approach having its limitations and opportunities. We have analyzed the limitations and opportunities of database-oriented, process-oriented, service-oriented and portal-oriented integration strategies from electronic prescription systems’ point of view. It has turned out that we cannot satisfy all the requirements by any of these strategies but rather we have to develop the electronic prescription system which supports various strategies. In this paper, we first describe the functions and requirement of electronic prescription system, and then present how these functions and requirements can be implemented in our development architecture.