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Healthcare Providers Health Clubs Patients at Home

Patient history Membership data Heart monitor data
Exams
Operations Class data
Hospital stays Treadmill, bike
Medications exercise data
Patient progress Personal trainer data
Exercise Exercise Watch data recorded
prescriptions
performance data in mobile devices
Figure 7-18
Information Silos Without PRIDE Information Silos

would like to have prescription data from their providers as well as exercise data from their
time at health clubs. Health clubs would like to have exercise prescriptions and home work-
out data to integrate with the data they have. All three entities would like to produce reports
from the integrated data.
Figure 7-19 shows the structure of an inter-enterprise system that meets the goals of the
three types of participant. In this figure, the labeled rectangles inside the cloud represent mo-
bile applications that could be native, thin-client, or both. Some of the application processing
might be done on cloud servers as well as on the mobile devices. Those design decisions are not
shown. As illustrated, this system assumes that all users receive reports on mobile devices but,
because of the large amount of keying involved, that healthcare providers submit and manage
prescriptions using a personal computer.
As you can see, prescription and exercise data are integrated in the PRIDE database; that
integrated data is processed by a reporting application (Chapter 9) to create and distribute the
reports as shown.
Systems like that shown in Figure 7-19 are referred to as distributed systems because ap-
plications processing is distributed across multiple computing devices. Standards such as http,
https, html5, css3, JavaScript, and SOA using Web services enable programs to receive data
from, and display data to, a variety of mobile and desktop devices.
PRIDE data is requested and delivered using JSON.

Q8 2025?

In the next 10 years, ERP vendors (and their customers) will face two significant technology
challenges that will pose numerous problems and, at the same time, offer many opportunities.
The first concerns information systems technology.
All software vendors today must engage in the development of new cloud-based prod-
ucts. To speed this process, the major players have acquired numerous companies. For ex-
ample, starting in 2012, Oracle and SAP have engaged in an acquisition bidding war as they
compete for the number-one spot for ERP solutions to large companies. Acquisitions are
likely to continue.