SEMANTIC SERVICE-ORIENTED DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT METHODOLOGY FOR ENTERPRISE HEALTHCARE INTEGRATION

Ratnesh Sahay, Ronan Fox, Manfred Hauswirth

2009

Abstract

The application of ontologies (semantic) to enhance any existing or proposed Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) based software architecture has various levels of use in terms of intra and inter enterprise integration. The use of ontologies in an architectural design and development methodology of any service-oriented enterprise software holds the key to offer a dynamic, flexible and scalable solution. Current efforts in semantic Service-Oriented Architecture (sSOA) involve primarily the top-down modeling of services and data. A roadmap that meets industrial demand of existing (bottom-up) services and data is missing. This paper analyses a healthcare standard (HL7) as an integration mechanism to connect healthcare enterprises. We have applied semantics on top of HL7 profiles to fill the gap between HL7 and SOA artifacts. The results have shown that semantics can ease the integration steps and burden to connect healthcare enterprises. We have proposed an integration platform which is based on a semantic Service-oriented Architecture (sSOA). Our goal is to apply lightweight semantics that incorporate and benefit from both development methodologies (top-down and bottom-up), to create a converged approach, for enterprise healthcare integration.

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Sahay R., Fox R. and Hauswirth M. (2009). SEMANTIC SERVICE-ORIENTED DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT METHODOLOGY FOR ENTERPRISE HEALTHCARE INTEGRATION . In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-8111-81-4, pages 159-166. DOI: 10.5220/0001835101590166


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@conference{webist09,
author={Ratnesh Sahay and Ronan Fox and Manfred Hauswirth},
title={SEMANTIC SERVICE-ORIENTED DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT METHODOLOGY FOR ENTERPRISE HEALTHCARE INTEGRATION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2009},
pages={159-166},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001835101590166},
isbn={978-989-8111-81-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - SEMANTIC SERVICE-ORIENTED DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT METHODOLOGY FOR ENTERPRISE HEALTHCARE INTEGRATION
SN - 978-989-8111-81-4
AU - Sahay R.
AU - Fox R.
AU - Hauswirth M.
PY - 2009
SP - 159
EP - 166
DO - 10.5220/0001835101590166