Standard-based data and service interoperability in eHealth systems

International standardization in information representation, organization, and dissemination are meant to eliminate the discrepancies in communication among participating organizations and institutions in a particular domain. The management of domain information will then allow different participants to integrate their legacy information or application servers to a nation-wide network and use widely approved services to communicate their proprietary data and services with a large group of clients. In this context, traditional healthcare information systems require fundamental re-engineering to new network-centric environments in order to reduce the huge costs of healthcare while maintaining the expected quality of public health. This integration using new HL7 v3 standards and leading-edge information technologies will be the initial steps for shifting towards an interoperable healthcare environment. This paper aims at addressing new challenges in standard-based interoperability provis...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: ICSM
• Authors: Kamran Sartipi, Mohammad H. Yarmand
• Keywords: Healthcare Information Systems, ICSM 2008, Interoperable Healthcare Environment, Software Engineering, Traditional Healthcare Information