Although the standards in electronic health records and general healthcare services continue to evolve, many organizations push to connect interoperability with public service and basic citizenship rights. This poses significant technical and organizational challenges that are the focus of many research and standardization efforts.
Standards and Specifications
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: A Multi-Tiered Perspective on Healthcare Interoperability
Craig Kuziemsky
Chapter 2: Standards Related to Interoperability in EHR & HS
Mário Macedo, Pedro Isaías
Chapter 3: LinkEHR: A Platform for the Normalization of Legacy Clinical Data Based on Archetypes
José Alberto Maldonado, Diego Boscá, David Moner, Montserrat Robles
Chapter 4: Interoperability of EHR Systems Based on Semantic Representation and Transformation Models
Catalina Martínez-Costa, Marcos Menárguez-Tortosa, Jesualdo Tomás Fernández-Breis
Chapter 5: On the Integration of Clinical Archetypes with Ontologies and Rules
Leonardo Lezcano
Chapter 6: A Formal Investigation of Semantic Interoperability of HCLS Systems
Ratnesh Sahay, Antoine Zimmermann, Ronan Fox, Axel Polleres, Manfred Hauswirth
Chapter 7: Sensor Grid Enhancement with Data Management System for Ubiquitous Healthcare Computing
Nikolaos Preve
Chapter 8: Using Agent and Workflow Technologies for the Implementation of Interoperable Healthcare Information Systems
Vassiliki Koufi, Flora Malamateniou, George Vassilacopoulos
Chapter 9: Enabling Interoperability of Patient Summaries across Europe with Triplespaces
Alessio Carenini, Davide Cerri, Reto Krummenacher, Elena Simperl
Chapter 10: Semantic Integration of Patient Data for Clinical Decision Support in Breast Cancer Care
Leonardo Lezcano, Miguel-Ángel Sicilia, Eydel Rivero
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