HIXEn: An integration engine for multi-vocabulary health information using REST & semantic metadata mapping

Author

Purkayastha, S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Norwegian Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Trondheim, Norway

fYear

2012

fDate

Oct. 30 2012-Nov. 2 2012

Firstpage

679

Lastpage

684

Abstract

Integration of Health Information Systems (HIS) has been a challenge because of the different semantics that are used by health-care practices and different levels of health-care systems need different kinds of information. Looking through the case of two widely used open-source HIS (one patient-level and one aggregate country-level system), the paper analyses multiple approaches for integration. The paper develops a novel integration engine (HIXEn) that uses concepts of distributed hypermedia systems from RESTful architecture and Resource Descriptors from semantic web that can allow health information exchanges to flexibly connect different HIS.

Keywords

health care; hypermedia; medical information systems; meta data; public domain software; resource allocation; semantic Web; HIXEn; RESTful architecture; distributed hypermedia systems; health care practices; health care system; health information exchanges; health information systems; multivocabulary health information integration engine; open source HIS; resource descriptors; semantic Web; semantic metadata mapping; Communications technology; Decision support systems; DHIS2; OpenMRS; RDF; REST; health information systems; integration; semantic web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information and Communication Technologies (WICT), 2012 World Congress on

Conference_Location

Trivandrum

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4806-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WICT.2012.6409162

Filename

6409162