The Oracle Healthcare adapter enables you to create an end-to-end health care integration process in a SOA composite application. The Healthcare adapter establishes the connection between a SOA composite application and the external health care applications with which data is shared or with an internal topic or queue, where data can be made available internally or to other systems. You can use other Oracle SOA Suite components in your composite application, including BPEL processes, Oracle Mediator components, a variety of adapters, and so on.

The Healthcare Configuration Wizard in Oracle JDeveloper lets you add health care integration binding components to a SOA composite application as follows:

• The component is used as a service (inbound) to receive messages from external systems and deliver them to SOA composite applications. Oracle SOA Suite for health care integration is the entry point to the SOA composite application.

• The component is used as a reference (outbound) to send messages from the SOA composite application to external applications.

As you follow the steps in the Healthcare Configuration Wizard, you are prompted to select a document definition created in Oracle SOA Suite for health care integration.

You can launch Oracle SOA Suite for health care integration from the wizard to create a document definition if the right one does not already exist. This is the payload, or message, that you are receiving from or sending to external systems.