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Presenter: Adeniyi Onabajo - University of Victoria, Canada
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Date: Fri, January 31, 2003
Time: 13:30:00 - 00:00:00
Place: EOW 430

ABSTRACT

With the increasing need for inter-organizational business processes and data interchange coupled with the growth of internet and web connectivity the use of web-based information integration has become widespread in many industries and various aspects of society. Benefits of such information network for the health sector will include improved service and cost reduction. The Medemed project is focused on developing a mediation technology to support distributed information networks based on a concept of an active, auditable Peer-to-Peer network paradigm for health information management. Some of the requirements of the developed mediation technology include reliability, security/privacy, adaptability and scalability. The decentralized network is composed of independent and customizable components which are used to create specific information flow process. It supports federation of existing and new heterogeneous Medical Information Systems (MIS) through the use of web standards and application-specific interoperability standards such as HL7 (Health-Level 7). This talk will give an introduction to the architecture of Medemed and its major concepts: Grid Federation Envelope (GFE), Adaptive Process Middleware (APM) and the Medical Exchange Agency (MEA). In addition, provide an insight to a prototype under development in collaboration with the Palliative Care study of the University Of Victoria School Of Health Information Science and our corporate partner RPA Systems Farm Inc.