TY  - JOUR
T1  - A Semantic Publish-Subscribe Coordination Framework for IHE based Cross-Community Health Record Exchange
A1  - Urovi, Visara
A1  - Olivieri, Alex Carmine
A1  - Bromuri, Stefano
A1  - Fornara, Nicoletta
A1  - Schumacher, Michael
JA  - ACM SIGAPP Applied Computing Review
Y1  - 2013
VL  - 13
IS  - 3
SP  - 38
EP  - 49
SN  - ISSN:1559-6915 EISSN:1931-0161
UR  - http://www.sigapp.org/acr/Issues/V13.3/ACR-13-3-2013.pdf
KW  - Coordination
KW  - Document Exchange
KW  - EHR
KW  - IHE
KW  - OWL
KW  - Semantic Interoperability
KW  - TuCSoN
N2  - This paper presents a semantic agent coordination framework for the automatic exchange of Electronic Health Records (EHR). The framework enables health organizations that comply with the existing interoperability standards, as proposed by the Integrating Healthcare Enterprise (IHE), to dynamically connect in a P2P network. A set of autonomous agents and a set of distributed coordination rules are used to coordinate the agents in the search of specific health records. The framework models the interactions among the communities as a combination of the tuple centre agent
communication model with the publish-subscribe paradigm and semantic web technologies. In order to illustrate the scalability of our approach, we evaluate the proposed solution in distributed settings. The contribution of this work is that it proposes the coordination mechanisms for IHE compliant communities to dynamically connect and share EHR of patient.
ER  -