HIMSS Word of the Day #280: Web Services
Web services are a common method that lets web-based applications connect and use one another’s functions over an internet protocol backbone. This post explains the SOAP, WSDL, and XML foundations the HIMSS Dictionary names, how modern REST-style and FHIR APIs relate, what a remote clinical decision support trial and a hospital service-oriented architecture project reported, and the security and reliability questions to ask.