Design framework for ontology based interactive e-health services

Web services for Personal Health Records (PHRs) have been deployed increasingly. However, the benefit of using PHR is still limited due to difficulty of understanding health information as well as its flexibility. Even semantic web approaches have been implemented in this domain; it is still hard to find a good practice one. To overcome this problem, we have proposed a design framework for e-health applications which is able to provide the meaning of information with adaptive and dynamic to the e-health knowledge-base. In our approach, meaning of information is based on medical ontology based which is able to connect to any services specified through resource URIs; hence it is `component as a service´. Our framework is based on REST architecture with important constrains such as hypermedia-driven, and self-descriptive thorough semantic technology. In addition, we reuse some existing tools such as OpenSearch, and XForms for solving service interaction problems. We have demonstrated our framework on applying to e-health applications. We have found that our framework is scalable, flexible, and rapid development compared to others, e.g. SOAP.