A process oriented semantic healthcare service composition

Author

Shuying Wang ; Brown, K. ; Capretz, M.A.M. ; Hines, P. ; Boyd, J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada

fYear

2009

fDate

26-27 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

479

Lastpage

484

Abstract

The service oriented computing paradigm is transforming traditional enterprise information from a closed, centralized control system into a dynamic information exchange with business process support. In particular, interoperability of healthcare information systems has become an important issue within the healthcare industry. In order to enable effective and efficient information exchange, we propose a process oriented service discovery approach to support a dynamic healthcare service composition that is to occur during design time. Specifically, our approach utilizes semantic profiles to specify the semantic descriptions of process operations using domain specific ontologies such as HL7. Consequently, our methodology provides substantial flexibility for semantic healthcare service compositions while reusing existing processes and services.

Keywords

Web services; health care; medical information systems; ontologies (artificial intelligence); open systems; HL7 ontology; healthcare industry; healthcare information systems; interoperability; process oriented service discovery approach; semantic healthcare service composition; service oriented computing; Automation; Centralized control; Electrical equipment industry; Information systems; Medical services; OWL; Ontologies; Process design; Semantic Web; Web services; business process; healthcare service; semantic web service; service composition;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Science and Technology for Humanity (TIC-STH), 2009 IEEE Toronto International Conference

Conference_Location

Toronto, ON

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3877-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TIC-STH.2009.5444451

Filename

5444451