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A Personal Health Trajectory API: Addressing Problems in Health Institution-Oriented Systems

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Each person interacts with multiple health institution’s systems along their life. These systems are usually developed to fulfill the specific needs of sanitary organizations or Web of Medical Things manufacturers. However, most of the times these information systems aren’t interconnected, making it very difficult to put in common the information of a patient scattered in various systems. Thus, it’s necessary to develop solutions that allow health information systems developers to consult all the information of an user across the multiple health’s information systems it is scattered and to offer this information organized as the Personal Health Trajectory of the user (a succession of Personal Health Records ordered by time). This paper proposes a solution for the integration of heterogeneous health information systems, the processing of their data and its provisioning in a health trajectory perspective through an API. Thus, software developers of healthcare solutions can leverage this API to develop a new generation of person-oriented solutions.

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This work was supported by the project 0499_4IE_PLUS_4_E funded by the Interreg V-A España-Portugal 2014-2020 program, by the project RTI2018-094591-B-I00 (MCIU/AEI/FEDER, UE), by the Department of Economy and Infrastructure of the Government of Extremadura (GR18112, IB18030), and by the European Regional Development Fund.

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Rojo, J., Hernandez, J., Murillo, J.M. (2020). A Personal Health Trajectory API: Addressing Problems in Health Institution-Oriented Systems. In: Bielikova, M., Mikkonen, T., Pautasso, C. (eds) Web Engineering. ICWE 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12128. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50578-3_37

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