A process oriented semantic healthcare service composition

The service oriented computing paradigm is transforming traditional enterprise information from a closed, centralized control system into a dynamic information exchange with business process support. In particular, interoperability of healthcare information systems has become an important issue within the healthcare industry. In order to enable effective and efficient information exchange, we propose a process oriented service discovery approach to support a dynamic healthcare service composition that is to occur during design time. Specifically, our approach utilizes semantic profiles to specify the semantic descriptions of process operations using domain specific ontologies such as HL7. Consequently, our methodology provides substantial flexibility for semantic healthcare service compositions while reusing existing processes and services.