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Mobile agent technology is used in modern information technology to facilitate interoperability between isolated information systems. In addition, mobile agents have many advantages that make them a viable and attractive option in health sector applications. We propose the development of a health architecture based on integrated mobile agent technology and a service-oriented architecture (SOA) with distributed health applications involving the interoperability of remote or local homogeneous and heterogeneous applications, besides the SOA, and providing support for mobile agents. Furthermore, the SOA can be tested on different platforms. The development of a mobile agent architecture using Health Level Seven, known as HL7, for data exchange in the health sector is an essential step in making it widely accepted by centers that use health records as their means of communication. Each health center’s local data format can be modified for data exchange with other health centers through a mapping process that transforms the data from its local format to HL7, and vice versa. This research introduces a mobile agent architecture that can be applied to distributed health information systems to achieve interoperability.
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Elammari, M., Alteap, T.F. (2011). Health Architecture Based on SOA and Mobile Agents. In: Zain, J.M., Wan Mohd, W.M.b., El-Qawasmeh, E. (eds) Software Engineering and Computer Systems. ICSECS 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 181. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22203-0_5
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