Collaborative Business Process Support in IHE XDS through ebXML Business Processes

Currently, clinical information is stored in all kinds of proprietary formats through a multitude of medical information systems available on the market. This results in a severe interoperability problem in sharing electronic healthcare records. To address this problem, an industry initiative, called "Integrating Healthcare Enterprise (IHE)" has specified the "Cross Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS)" Profile to store healthcare documents in an ebXML registry/repository to facilitate their sharing. Through a separate effort, IHE has also defined interdepartmental Workflow Profiles to identify the transactions required to integrate information flow among several information systems. Although the clinical documents stored in XDS registries are obtained as a result of executing these workflows, IHE has not yet specified collaborative healthcare processes for the XDS. Hence, there is no way to track the workflows in XDS and the clinical documents produced through the wo...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ICDE
• Authors: Asuman Dogac, Veli Bicer, Alper Okcan
• Keywords: Database, Ebxml Business Processes, ICDE 2006, IHE XDS Architecture, XDS Registries