IBHIS: integration broker for heterogeneous information sources

Author

Kotsiopoulos, Ioannis ; Keane, John ; Turner, Mark ; Layzell, Paul ; Zhu, Fujun

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput., UMIST, Manchester, UK

fYear

2003

fDate

3-6 Nov. 2003

Firstpage

378

Lastpage

384

Abstract

Effective use of heterogeneous, distributed information in a coherent, integrated fashion has long been a "holy grail". The UK Health and Social care domain is an example where a global view is needed to facilitate decision making, whilst having ethical and legal concerns. The IBHIS project aims to provide an integrated broker that enables coherent use of a set of distributed, heterogeneous data sources, whilst ensuring trustworthiness and audit. This paper presents a service-oriented federated architecture for the IBHIS broker.

Keywords

decision making; distributed databases; distributed object management; health care; medical information systems; IBHIS; UK Health and Social care; decision making; distributed data source; distributed information; heterogeneous data source; information systems; integrated broker; integration broker for heterogeneous information sources; service-oriented federated architecture; Computer science; Decision making; Distributed computing; Hospitals; Large scale integration; Law; Legal factors; Management information systems; Service oriented architecture; Warehousing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Software and Applications Conference, 2003. COMPSAC 2003. Proceedings. 27th Annual International

ISSN

0730-3157

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2020-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPSAC.2003.1245368

Filename

1245368