title: A secure semantic interoperability infrastructure for inter-enterprise sharing of electronic healthcare records.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: IT Innovation Centre, University of Southampton, 2 Venture Road, Chilworth Science Park, Southampton SO16 7NP, UK. mjb@it-innovation.soton.ac.uk
authors.forename: Mike
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Boniface
authors.forename: E Rowland
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Watkins
authors.forename: Ahmed
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Saleh
authors.forename: Asuman
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dogac
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Eichelberg
mesh_terms: D016494:Computer Security; D005060:Europe; D020407:Internet; D008498:Medical Record Linkage; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000458:organization & administration*