Objective The objective of the ARTEMIS project is to develop a semantic Web services based interoperability framework for the health care domain. We take a highly innovative approach regarding the interoperability of medical information systems with respect to the current approaches. We focus on processes in terms of Web services rather than recording and documentation of electronic health records. In other words, our approach allows a standard way of accessing the data since there are very many standards that need to work together.The interoperability problems of medical information systems are two fold: First there are multiple, incompatible, proprietary approaches to connecting disparate applications. Secondly, there are more than one standard to represent the same information, which in turn creates an interoperability problem. ARTEMIS will enable medical practitioners to access patient records securely, seamlessly through a low-cost peer-to-peer infrastructure, regardless of where their patients or their records might be.ARTEMIS project provides the healthcare industry with an ideal platform to achieve difficult integration problems. Our Web service model encapsulates already existing applications and access to documents in a standard way and incorporates service providers, service consumers and service registries. Currently most prominent Web service registries are Universal Description, Discovery, Integration (UDDI) and electronic business XML (ebXML). There are also very recent efforts to use Peer-to-peer networks based on Web services. However both service registries and P2P architectures available do not provide semantically enriched search capabilities.In the ARTEMIS project we will provide extensions to these architectures to enable discovery of the Web services based on their semantic descriptions. Medicine is one of the few domains to have some domain knowledge in a computable form which we will exploit in defining the semantics of medical Web services. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetsemantic web Programme(s) FP6-IST - Information Society Technologies: thematic priority under the specific programme "Integrating and strengthening the European research area" (2002-2006). Topic(s) IST-2002-2.3.1.11 - eHealth Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinator MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY EU contribution No data Address INONU BULVARI, CAMPUS 06531 ANKARA Türkiye See on map Total cost No data Participants (5) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all ALTEC INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS S.A. Greece EU contribution No data Address PATMOU 12 15123 MAROUSSI - ATHENS See on map Total cost No data OFFIS EV Germany EU contribution No data Address ESCHERWEG 2 000 OLDENBURG See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data SOUTH AND EAST BELFAST HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES TRUST United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address KNOCKBRACKEN HEALTHCARE PARK, SAINTFIELD ROAD BT8 8BH BELFAST See on map Total cost No data TEPE TEKNOLOJIK SERVISLER ANONIM SIRKETI Türkiye EU contribution No data Address BEYTEPE KOYU 5 06533 BILKENT ANKARA See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address Highfield SOUTHAMPTON See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data