HL7 ontology and mobile agents for interoperability in heterogeneous medical information systems

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 7-8, 2006, Pages 817-836

  Orgun, B ^a   Vu, J ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SYDNEY SOUTH WEST AREA HEALTH SERVICE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Health level seven; Heterogeneous medical information systems; Interoperability; Mobile agents; Ontology

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; INTEROPERABILITY; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

HEALTH LEVEL SEVEN; HETEROGENEOUS MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MOBILE AGENTS; ONTOLOGY;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH LEVEL 7; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; HUMANS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTEGRATED ADVANCED INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED;

EID: 33646842835     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2005.04.010     Document Type: Article

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