Semantic Interoperability in E-Health for Improved Healthcare
Saman Iftikhar, Wajahat Ali, Farooq Ahmad, Kiran Fatim · InTech eBooks · 2012
One of the challenges faced nowadays by the healthcare industry is semantic interoperability. It is the ability of a healthcare system to share information and have that information properly interpreted by the receiving system in the same sense as intended by the transmitting system. Semantic Web (aka Web 3.0) provides the enabling technologies to achieve semantic interoperability. Web Services, as a catalyst in this process, provide seamless communication of information between healthcare systems thus providing better access to patient information and improved healthcare.