Using archetypes and Domain Specific Languages on development of ubiquitous applications to pervasive healthcare

Pervasive healthcare focuses on the use of new technologies, tools, and services, in order to help patients to play a more active role in the treatment of their diseases. Since pervasive healthcare environments demand a huge amount of information exchange, the use of technologies like Health Level Seven (HL7) and archetypes has been proposed to provide interoperability between applications for these environments. However, the complexity of such technologies difficults their full adoption as well as the migration from centralized healthcare environments into pervasive ones. Aiming at collaborating to bridge this gap, this paper proposes an approach to integrate archetypes into HL7 v3 messages for the development of pervasive healthcare applications. The approach suggests the use of Domain Specific Languages (DSLs), which simplify the HL7 messages modeling and allow to automate most of the messages schema codification.

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