A secure semantic interoperability infrastructure for inter-enterprise sharing of electronic healthcare records.
Healthcare professionals need access to accurate and complete healthcare records for effective assessment, diagnosis and treatment of patients. The non-interoperability of healthcare information systems means that interenterprise access to a patient's history over many distributed encounters is difficult to achieve. The ARTEMIS project has developed a secure semantic web service infrastructure for the interoperability of healthcare information systems. Healthcare professionals share services and medical information using a web service annotation and mediation environment based on functional and clinical semantics derived from healthcare standards. Healthcare professionals discover medical information about individuals using a patient identification protocol based on pseudonymous information. The management of care pathways and access to medical information is based on a well-defined business process allowing healthcare providers to negotiate collaboration and data access agreements within the context of strict legislative frameworks.
Boniface
Mike
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IT Innovation Centre, University of Southampton, 2 Venture Road, Chilworth Science Park, Southampton SO16 7NP, UK. mjb@it-innovation.soton.ac.uk
Watkins
E Rowland
ER
Saleh
Ahmed
A
Dogac
Asuman
A
Eichelberg
Marco
M
D016494:Computer Security; D005060:Europe; D020407:Internet; D008498:Medical Record Linkage; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000458:organization & administration*