Microsoft Knowledge Driven Life Sciences: Industry Architecture Technical White Paper
Published: June 21, 2005
Research, commercial, and regulatory pressures are driving fundamental changes in life sciences organizations. Microsoft believes that the traditional boundaries between enterprises and organizational units are disappearing as the industry moves toward a connected ecosystem of researchers, physicians, and consumers. To address these industry trends, Microsoft has created the Knowledge Driven Life Sciences initiative. This white paper provides a high-level overview of the functional and technical architecture that Knowledge Driven Life Sciences is built on, and discusses how the development and implementation of this architecture can provide interoperability across information systems by exploiting industry standards like the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), Health Level 7 (HL7), and XML Web services.
