Document-based service architecture for communication between health and wellness service providers and customers

Author

Lahteenmaki, Jaakko ; Leppanen, Juha ; Kaijanranta, Hannu

Author_Institution

VTT Tech. Res. Centre of Finland, Espoo

fYear

2008

fDate

Jan. 30 2008-Feb. 1 2008

Firstpage

275

Lastpage

278

Abstract

Electronic communication between health and wellness service providers and customers is becoming more common. The paper introduces a new document-based service approach - PIR (personal information repository) - supporting information to be sent between the provider and the customer. The advantage compared to existing solutions is that the service can be shared with several service providers, which allows the customer to use the same interface for many services. Furthermore, transmission of structured (HL7/CDA R2) documents is supported allowing semantic compatibility of exchanged health information. A user trial has been carried out for testing the solution. The results are encouraging and reflect considerable interest towards exchange of personal health and wellness information.

Keywords

biomedical communication; document handling; health care; medical information systems; user interfaces; document-based service architecture; electronic communication; health and wellness service providers; personal information repository; semantic compatibility; Availability; Electronic mail; Information security; Joining processes; Medical services; Portfolios; Service oriented architecture; Testing; Web server; Web services; eHealth; health and wellness; security; service architecture;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, 2008. PervasiveHealth 2008. Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tampere

Print_ISBN

978-963-9799-15-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCTHEALTH.2008.4571089

Filename

4571089