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Creating interoperability within healthcare industry

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Wu, Chen
Hadzic, Maja
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2008
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Wu, Chen and Hadzic, Maja. 2008. Creating interoperability within healthcare industry, in Ju-Jang Lee and Xinghuo Yu (ed), 6th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN 2008), Jul 13 2008, pp. 1341-1346.Daejeon, Korea: IEEE
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Proceedings of the 6th IEEE international conference on industrial informatics (INDIN 2008)
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6th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN 2008)
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Curtin Business School
Centre for Extended Enterprises and Business Intelligence
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During the last decade, a number of health initiatives have been undertaken in Australia. However, Australian medical systems still suffer from the chronic problem of inability to share information essential to the health and wellbeing of patients. The major causes for this are (1) the lack of a standardized format in which patient information is being kept, and (2) the lack of infrastructure to enable sharing of the information among different organizations and institutions. In this paper we propose the use of ontologies, to enable effective translation between different EHR formats, and use of web services to enable efficient information exchange and sharing. The proposed solution has the potential to greatly improve the way patient information is being used, and consequently reduce the associated costs in both human and financial terms.