Using P2P technology to achieve eHealth interoperability

Author

Guo, Yang ; Hu, Yan ; Afzal, Javed ; Bai, Guohua

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput., Blekinge Inst. of Technol., Karlskrona, Sweden

fYear

2011

fDate

25-27 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

eHealth is an emerging area that boosts up with advancement in Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Due to variety of eHealth solutions developed by different IT firms with no unified standards, interoperability issue has raised. In this paper, a case study in Blekinge County healthcare organizations has been conducted for understanding the contexts of eHealth interoperability issues. Then a peer-to-peer (P2P) model based on JXTA platform is implemented to solve the identified eHealth interoperability problems. According to the test result of the prototype, the suggested syntactic level interoperability among healthcare organizations has been achieved.

Keywords

biomedical communication; computational linguistics; health care; medical information systems; open systems; peer-to-peer computing; Blekinge County healthcare organizations; ICT; JXTA platform; P2P technology; eHealth interoperability; eHealth solutions; information and communication technology; peer to peer model; syntactic level interoperability; Hospitals; Interviews; Organizations; Peer to peer computing; Prototypes; Standards organizations; Interoperability; JXTA; Peer-to-peer; eHealth;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Service Systems and Service Management (ICSSSM), 2011 8th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tianjin

ISSN

2161-1890

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-310-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSSSM.2011.5959430

Filename

5959430