Information Systems Interoperability
Information Systems Interoperability
Pacific Medical Network Project -Pushing the Edge of the Envelope in Information Interoperability
PACMEDTEK '98 Proceedings of the Symposium on Pacific Medical Technology
Evaluation of Middleware Architectures in Achieving System Interoperability
RSP '03 Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Workshop on Rapid System Prototyping (RSP'03)
Queue - Component Technologies
Integrating Object-Oriented and Ontological Representations: A Case Study in Java and OWL
ISWC '08 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on The Semantic Web
A CORBA-based integration of distributed electronic healthcare records using the Synapses approach
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
OWL-based reasoning methods for validating archetypes
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
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Today e-health data and its usage in various dimensions is one of the most discussed issues. The nature of health data is heterogeneous and distributed, accessed through varied formats and architectures supporting different vocabularies. Interoperable electronic Health Record (EHR) systems are the most important enabling tools on the road to patient-centric care, a lifeline for continuity of care and support to mobility of patients. Also, hospitals refer cases to other hospitals located in same or different cities or countries altogether leading to sharing of information. This generates the reason to study the suitability of available models and protocols enabling exchange of sensitive and time critical health information during open-ended transmission. The issue of sharing data in integrated applications is highly significant and affected by various implicit and explicit factors in terms of technologies and adoption by health providers. Varied architectural approaches are implemented by vendors for designing a HIS (Hospital Information System) without giving any consideration to integrated and interoperable sharing of data. Such disparate systems are best when used in isolation but very weak when try to talk with each other. This paper aims to review issues related creation of architectures in the perspective of sharing of electronic health records and the challenges faced by them in an interoperable environment.