A federated interoperability architecture for health information systems. (1st January 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ciampi, Mario; De Pietro, Giuseppe; Esposito, Christian; Sicuranza, Mario; Donzelli, Paolo
• Is Part Of: International journal of internet protocol technology. Volume 7:Number 4(2013)
• Page Start: 189
• Page End: 202
• Publication Date: 2013-01-01
• Subjects: health information systems -- interoperability -- data sharing -- web services -- event notification; File Transfer Protocol (Computer network protocol) -- Periodicals; Multicasting (Computer networks) -- Periodicals; 004.678
• DOI: 10.1504/IJIPT.2013.058646
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1743-8209

Abstract

He last decade has been characterised by the proliferation of several projects for integrating the already-existing health information systems so as to form national or transnational infrastructures for sharing medical data. This evolution is felt as a promising solution for improving the provided healthcare and reducing its costs by avoiding unnecessary examinations. However, such a vision comes with several challenging issues, in terms of interoperability and security. This paper presents an architecture for federating health information systems in a secure manner, and its concrete implementation. The quality of this implementation is assessed by means of several experiments for measuring the time needed for the retrieval and notification of documents.