AN AGENT-ORIENTED AND SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE IN MEDICINE

Traditionally, medical information systems have been proprietary to certain institutions, with a negative impact on the quality of medical services. The introduction of the HL7 standard version 3, helps in defining a better approach to the issue of interoperability. However, the usage of the HL7 standard is limited and misunderstood, while the traditional proprietary applications still dominate the medical world. This paper proposes an architecture based on multiagent systems and semantic web that addresses the interoperability between medical information systems, having as kernel a semantic web service as a solution to the registration and discovery of web services and software agents.