Authors:
Marcos Da Silveira
and
Nicolas Guelfi
Affiliation:
Laboratory for Advanced Software Systems, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Keyword(s):
Service oriented architecture, interoperability, standards, e-health, information technology.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Biomedical Engineering
;
Cloud Computing
;
Collaboration and e-Services
;
Complex Systems Modeling and Simulation
;
Data Engineering
;
e-Business
;
e-Health
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Health Information Systems
;
Integration/Interoperability
;
Interoperability
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Platforms and Applications
;
Sensor Networks
;
Simulation and Modeling
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Software and Architectures
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
The design of e-Health systems is a hard task since their requirements are complex and heterogeneous. These systems merge functional requirements with an important set of non–functional requirement like security, safety, standardization or technology related constraints concerning the hardware and software components to be used. The ICT research community has proposed recently architectural models for the development of open and dynamic distributed systems centered on the concept of “service”. This approach has been followed by all the major actors of ICT for their frameworks due to its adaptation to the World-Wide-Web. This paper is a position paper where we analyze the current status and needs for e-Health systems and the limitation upon them. We present the main characteristics of middlewares that follow a service-oriented architecture and we explain how these frameworks could be exploited, as a vision to the future, to design e-health systems for a better insurance of their funct
ional and non-functional requirements.
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