title: Policy-driven management of personal health information for enhancing interoperability.
abstract: Based on a system-theoretical approach, aspects of real world systems have been introduced. In this context, the relations between a system's architecture, i.e. its components, their functions and relations, formally represented by domain-specific ontologies considering all domains relevant in the system's use case on the one hand and the system's behaviour ruled by the applied policies on the other hand have been described. A refinement of policies ruling a clinical setting has been exemplified. It could be shown that ubiquitous health systems must be designed and managed following a thoroughly systems-oriented, architecture-centric, ontology-based and policy-driven approach. The feasibility of the approach has been practically demonstrated.
authors.affiliation: Medical Faculty, University of Regensburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Bernd
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Blobel
authors.affiliation: University of Tampere, Finland.
authors.forename: Pekka
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ruotsalainen
authors.affiliation: eHealth Competence Center Bavaria, Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Germany.
authors.forename: Carolina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: González
authors.affiliation: eHealth Competence Center Bavaria, Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Germany.
authors.forename: Diego
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: López
mesh_terms: D057286:Electronic Health Records / Q000592:standards*; D063025:Health Information Management / Q000592:standards*; D006291:Health Policy; D055991:Health Records, Personal; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000592:standards*; D008498:Medical Record Linkage; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic