Patent ID: 8069057

Claim:
A system for providing healthcare asset intelligence, the system comprising: at least one processing device operable to format healthcare asset intelligence data accessed from a plurality of data sources at a data layer into a common format and provide the formatted healthcare asset intelligence data to at least one of a plurality of service components at a service component layer, wherein each of the plurality of data sources comprises one of a plurality of associated data formats, wherein the healthcare asset intelligence data is data related to management of healthcare assets, and wherein the system is configured according to a service-oriented architecture and uses service-oriented computing; the at least one processing device operable to perform intelligent analysis on the formatted healthcare asset intelligence data received at the at least one of the plurality of service components at the service component layer, wherein each of the plurality of service components is associated with a distinct task; and the at least one processing device operable to provide healthcare asset intelligence by at least one of creating a new service application and customizing an existing service application at a service application layer comprising a plurality of service applications, wherein one or more of the new service application is created and the existing service application is customized by selecting, based on a user input, at least one available service component from the plurality of service components at the service component layer, wherein each of the plurality of service components is operable to be reused when available by one or more of the plurality of service applications, wherein each of the data layer, the service component layer, and the service application layer function independently.