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Published in: Health and Technology 3/2014

01-09-2014 | Original Paper

Interoperability for medical information systems: an overview

Authors: Randa Hammami, Hatem Bellaaj, Ahmed Hadj Kacem

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Abstract

As it is known to all, there is an imperative need for electronic transfer of healthcare information (patients’ records, laboratory analyses, medical images…) between healthcare organizations to improve the quality level they are offering. However, medical information systems in each organization are different from each other. These different systems compose a heterogeneous, distributed system with high complexity: there are a large number of healthcare related applications that support specific needs effectively but are isolated or incompatible. Thus medical information systems’ interoperability constitutes one of the main challenges of the IT society. Semantic interoperability in healthcare is important especially when all the varying types of data need to interact. Presented in this paper are the most relevant works to our knowledge, dealing with interoperability in medical information systems and a comparative study between the new proposed approaches and research trends to resolve heterogeneity issues.
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Metadata
Title
Interoperability for medical information systems: an overview
Authors
Randa Hammami
Hatem Bellaaj
Ahmed Hadj Kacem
Publication date
01-09-2014
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Health and Technology / Issue 3/2014
Print ISSN: 2190-7188
Electronic ISSN: 2190-7196
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12553-014-0085-8

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