The Role of Enterprise Architecture in Healthcare-IT

Abstract

As far as Enterprise Architecture is a strategic planning tool, Main objective of architecture is to define the layout of organizational components and relationship among them in order to understand the integration of objects for further improvement. Enterprise architecture has several benefits and it is imperative for defining the IT components and their association with human (paramedical staff)involvement. However, the problem is, how to choose and create enterprise architecture framework for healthcare. Due to importance and pragmatic of enterprise architecture, the architectural concepts should be clear to senior management. Since, it is their responsibility to select the appropriate organizational architecture/framework for Business-IT alignment. Paper provides the enterprise architecture concepts. Since, it provides the overall picture of organizational concepts of well known architectural framework. Paper also proposed ArchiMate framework for modeling the healthcare organizations due to its coherence within EA elements. The main reason behind the use of such framework is the limitations of the existing ones in this cohesiveness of EA elements.