title: The role of architecture and ontology for interoperability.
abstract: Turning from organization-centric to process-controlled or even to personalized approaches, advanced healthcare settings have to meet special interoperability challenges. eHealth and pHealth solutions must assure interoperability between actors cooperating to achieve common business objectives. Hereby, the interoperability chain also includes individually tailored technical systems, but also sensors and actuators. For enabling corresponding pervasive computing and even autonomic computing, individualized systems have to be based on an architecture framework covering many domains, scientifically managed by specialized disciplines using their specific ontologies in a formalized way. Therefore, interoperability has to advance from a communication protocol to an architecture-centric approach mastering ontology coordination challenges.
authors.affiliation: eHealth Competence Center, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany. bernd.blobel@klinik.uni-regensburg.de
authors.forename: Bernd
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Blobel
authors.forename: Carolina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: González
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Oemig
authors.forename: Diego
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lopéz
authors.forename: Pirkko
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Nykänen
authors.forename: Pekka
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ruotsalainen
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration