Architecting for HIPAA Compliance with J2EE and Web Services
By DerShung Yang
About this feature: The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act is having a major impact on the architectural designs of medical systems across the U.S. In this article, DerShung Yang of Cysive and Chih-Hung Chang at Northeastern University explain why Web services are the preferred architectural approach for complying with HIPAA: