An architecture for interoperability and ubiquity of medical information

• Author(s): Plácido, Gonçalo R. ; Cunha, Carlos R. ; Morais, Elisabete Paulo
• Date: 2011
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10198/6648
• Origin: Biblioteca Digital do IPB
• Subject(s): Health information; Interoperability; Ubiquity; SOA
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

In critical situations, such as decision making in healthcare, is necessary to have access to all the patient’s information, this information must be reliable, and must be accessed in an easy and fast way. These requirements make medical information systems of extreme importance. However in today’s molds and with the advent of the Internet and mobile devices, a paradigm shift, from the current isolated systems to interoperable distributed systems, that take advantage of ubiquitous computing, is needed. The present work proposes an architecture that aims to answer the needs of interoperability between heterogeneous systems and the need of ubiquity of medical information systems.