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A peer to peer agent coordination framework for IHE based cross-community health record exchange

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Alex C. Olivieri,

Stefano Bromuri,

Nicoletta Fornara,

Michael I. SchumacherAuthors Info & Claims

SAC '13: Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Pages 1355 - 1362

https://doi.org/10.1145/2480362.2480617

Published: 18 March 2013 Publication History

Abstract

This paper presents a Peer to Peer (P2P) agent coordination framework for the exchange of Electronic Health Records (EHR) between health organisations that comply with the existing interoperability standards as proposed by the Integrating Healthcare Enterprise (IHE). Every health organisation represents a community in a P2P network and uses a set of autonomous agents and a set of distributed coordination rules to coordinate the agents in the search of specific health records. To model the interactions among communities, the framework uses the tuple centre agent communication model and semantic web technologies. In order to illustrate the scalability of our approach, we evaluate the proposed solution in distributed settings.

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Horne WBen Miled Z(2020)Making the Case for a P2P Personal Health RecordInformation10.3390/info1111051211:11(512)Online publication date: 31-Oct-2020
https://doi.org/10.3390/info11110512
Ciatto GDi Marzo Serugendo GLouvel MMariani SOmicini AZambonelli F(2020)Twenty Years of Coordination Technologies: COORDINATION contribution to the State of ArtJournal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming10.1016/j.jlamp.2020.100531(100531)Online publication date: Feb-2020
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