Re: [xdi] Paper about XRI/XDI in health care at University of Erlangen-N

Subject: Re: [xdi] Paper about XRI/XDI in health care at University of Erlangen-Nürnberg

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Markus Sabadello <markus.sabadello@xdi.org> wrote:

Hi all,

Thought you might be interested in this, since AFAIK health care has always been a key use case for XDI.

Igor Engel of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg has written a paper titled

"Conception and implementation of distributed institution management as an application-specific form of a distributed metadata repository"

http://www6.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/research/projects/promed/theses/SA_siigenge.pdf

Abstract in English:
"In health care many institutions cooperate and share information among themselves.

This information can be both patient data and the descriptive information for these
institutions. Possible health care institutions are hospitals or specialist clinics. This
study is about the distributed organization management. The administration refers

to the information describing the institutions themselves. The institutions should be
autonomous. They should also manage their own information. The core information
is the actors and the roles of the actors in these institutions. The goal is the software

that enables a distributed organization management. Some possible technologies are
investigated. The desired software is realized then with selected technologies. Finally,
the realization of the system on some properties such as scalability is studied."

Based on OpenXRI, XDI4j and ibrokerKit, the paper describes the implementation of a concrete XRI/XRDS/XDI architecture in which health care institutions can exchange information in a distributed, scalable fashion.

The paper also contains a number of interesting architecture diagrams as well as XRI/XDI sample data.

Markus
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