Managing Health Information Flows with a Reconfigurable Component-Based Middleware

Healthcare is becoming increasingly pervasive. Improvements in sensor and mobile communication technologies allow for the constant monitoring of patients and their environment. Infrastructure supporting care services must enable such data to flow to the relevant parties as appropriate to the circumstances. This paper describes our initial work on a policy driven, component-based middleware, illustrating how it manages information flows (through reconfiguration) to account for the dynamic nature of healthcare provisioning.