A Conceptual Framework for Ubiquitously Sharing Heterogeneous Patient Information among Autonomous Healthcare Providers

Fahad Al-Naydi, Jemal H. Abbawajy, Mustafa Matt Ders
2007 2007 International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (MUE'07)  
Ubiquity has been a key element to modern medical diagnosis system to improve medical service's efficiency and convenience on both medical personals and patients' sides. Mobile agents and peer-to-peer technologies make this anticipation possible. This paper proposes a framework to ubiquitously share patient medical information among geographically distributed healthcare providers. The proposed approach is based on ontologies, mobile agents and peer-to-peer technology for bringing together
more » ... mous heterogeneous and highly distributed health care facilities.
doi:10.1109/mue.2007.7 dblp:conf/mue/Al-NaydiAD07 fatcat:vwpwq2y5vnfnlfanojqj3auaoi