A methodology for the development of software agent based interoperable telemedicine systems: a tele-electrocardiography perspective. Ganguly, P & Ray, P Telemedicine journal: the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association, 6(2):283–294, 2000.
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Telemedicine involves the integration of information, human-machine, and healthcare technologies. Because different modalities of patient care require applications running on heterogeneous computing environment, software interoperability is a major issue in telemedicine. Software agent technology provides a range of promising techniques to solve this problem. This article discusses the development of a methodology for the design of interoperable telemedicine systems (illustrated with a tele-electrocardiography application). Software interoperability between different applications can be modeled at different levels of abstraction such as physical interoperability, data-type interoperability, specification-level interoperability, and semantic interoperability. Software agents address the issue of software interoperability at semantic level. A popular object-oriented software development methodology - unified modeling language (UML) - has been used for this development. This research has demonstrated the feasibility of the development of agent-based interoperable telemedicine systems. More research is needed before widespread deployment of such systems can take place.
@article{ganguly_methodology_2000,
	title = {A methodology for the development of software agent based interoperable telemedicine systems: a tele-electrocardiography perspective},
	volume = {6},
	issn = {1078-3024},
	shorttitle = {A methodology for the development of software agent based interoperable telemedicine systems},
	doi = {10.1089/107830200415234},
	abstract = {Telemedicine involves the integration of information, human-machine, and healthcare technologies. Because different modalities of patient care require applications running on heterogeneous computing environment, software interoperability is a major issue in telemedicine. Software agent technology provides a range of promising techniques to solve this problem. This article discusses the development of a methodology for the design of interoperable telemedicine systems (illustrated with a tele-electrocardiography application). Software interoperability between different applications can be modeled at different levels of abstraction such as physical interoperability, data-type interoperability, specification-level interoperability, and semantic interoperability. Software agents address the issue of software interoperability at semantic level. A popular object-oriented software development methodology - unified modeling language (UML) - has been used for this development. This research has demonstrated the feasibility of the development of agent-based interoperable telemedicine systems. More research is needed before widespread deployment of such systems can take place.},
	language = {eng},
	number = {2},
	journal = {Telemedicine journal: the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association},
	author = {Ganguly, P and Ray, P},
	year = {2000},
	pmid = {10957742},
	keywords = {Computer Systems, Electrocardiography, Feasibility Studies, Humans, Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted, Software Design, Telemedicine, Telemetry},
	pages = {283--294}
}

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