A prototype information broker uses a software service model to collect and integrate diverse patient data from autonomous healthcare agencies, potentially solving many problems that challenge current enterprise-based file systems.
Index Terms:
data management, healthcare data, interoperability, distributed data structures, information networks, software services
Citation:
David Budgen, Michael Rigby, Pearl Brereton, Mark Turner, "A Data Integration Broker for Healthcare Systems," Computer, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 34-41, Apr. 2007, doi:10.1109/MC.2007.112