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Towards a Sustainable Solution for Collaborative Healthcare Research

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Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare 2016 (InMed 2016)

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This paper describes a novel web-based environment that empowers healthcare research communities to efficiently and effectively collaborate thanks to reliable and user-friendly access to integrated and interoperable resources of different types. The proposed solution enables heterogeneous data and knowledge sources, as well as healthcare-related processing methodologies and tools, to be wrapped through appropriate web services. The paper sketches the motivation behind the proposed solution, discusses its architecture and types of services to be integrated, and comments on the foreseen advancements in healthcare research from a technological, a collaborative and an organizational perspective.

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  1. IMIS Lab, MEAD, University of Patras, 26504, Rio Patras, Greece

    Nikos Karacapilidis

  2. Institute of Computer Science, FORTH, 71110, Heraklion, Greece

    George Potamias

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  1. College of Info Science & Eg, Ritsumeikan University College of Info Science & Eg, Kusatsu, Shiga, Japan

    Yen-Wei Chen

  2. Dept of Media Technology, Ritsumeikan University Dept of Media Technology, Kusatsu, Shiga, Japan

    Satoshi Tanaka

  3. KES International , Shoreham-by-sea, United Kingdom

    Robert J. Howlett

  4. University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Karacapilidis, N., Potamias, G. (2016). Towards a Sustainable Solution for Collaborative Healthcare Research. In: Chen, YW., Tanaka, S., Howlett, R., Jain, L. (eds) Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare 2016. InMed 2016. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 60. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39687-3_16

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