A Hierarchical Event-based Architecture for the Notification of Medical Document Availability

A patient typically receives secondary care from a hospital- based physician dierent than his/her general practitioner. The commu- nication between the two of them is often tough and with decits, which may negatively aect the continuity of care. In this paper, we present a system based on publish/subscribe services for the fast and eective notication of medical data between dierent healthcare providers. We introduce the concept of topic hierarchies so as to notify the availability of a collection of documents, somehow related. Moreover, we also assess the achievable performance of the implementation of such a system.

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