An Interoperable Microservices Architecture for Healthcare Data Exchange

Abstract

Nowadays, the healthcare sector has stood out for offering the population a better quality of life. Under these circumstances, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are essential in mitigating the growing need for hospitals and care centers, providing computation and communication infrastructures to support healthcare services and applications. The introduction of new technologies in the healthcare industry, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Big Data, improve service delivery vertically. However, a problem arises when introducing those new paradigms: the amount of data generated from healthcare devices and applications. Indeed, data sharing brings some challenges due to different types of healthcare standards, multiple protocols, systems diversity, and incompatibility of data. In this article, we introduce a microservices architecture for healthcare transcoding engines. Our solution show how transcoders can be encapsulated as independently functions using microservices. An application scenario that maps healthcare standards is also presented. We show that the use of microservices as transcoding engines improves scalability and flexibility features required by the healthcare sector.