Towards Achieving Semantic Interoperability In eHealth Services

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Author(s): Adel Taweel (King’s College London, UK), Brendan Delaney (King’s College London, UK)and Stuart Speedie (King’s College London, UK)
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 14
Source title: E-Healthcare Systems and Wireless Communications: Current and Future Challenges
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Mohamed K. Watfa (University of Wollongong, UAE)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61350-123-8.ch018

Keywords: Health Information Systems / Medical Information Science Reference / Medicine & Healthcare

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One common and primary vision of eHealth is to achieve seamless interoperability between eHealth systems to enable the delivery of the right information about the right patient to the right person at the right time. However, the high sensitivity of the clinical domain and the vast differences in eHealth systems pose a great interoperability challenge for solutions that rely solely on prior knowledge of common interoperability standards will not sufficiently scale. This chapter presents a service-based approach that utilises domain ontologies combined with extensible problem models, enriched with domain terminology and knowledge services to enable autonomous data governance and semantic interoperability. The chapter addresses the resulting requirements and proposes a solution outlining the results from the prototype of the approach.

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