Using mashup technology to integrate medical data for patient centric healthcare

Abstract

The information technology advances are driving the transformation of healthcare. The first characteristic of those modern trends is the large amount of publically available medical information. Harnessing the public medical knowledge for improving the patients' safety is inevitable. Physicians and patients can, literally, benefit from the vast public information and medical systems should incorporate it. The second characteristic is the greater demand of users to participate in their applications and to fully control them. There are different types of medical system users and building one interface that fits all is very difficult task. We design a healthcare system by leveraging the novel Mashup technology. It can overcome most of the above challenges. Our system uses Mashup to integrate public knowledge and provide customizable workspaces for the various end users. This comprehensive system is built with the aim of using advanced technologies for the patient centric healthcare. © 2014 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.