Agent-Based Semantic Service Discovery for Healthcare: An Organizational Approach

Information and communication technologies offer great potential for society to quickly adopt e-services for economic and social development. Healthcare activities based on these technologies (e-health) are probably the most prominent of these e-services. However, e-health is evolving into such entities as m-health (mobile) or u-health (ubiquitous), which focus on applications that provide healthcare to people anywhere, anytime using broadband and wireless mobile technologies. This semantic-service-discovery mechanism considers relevant parts of the organizational context in which e-health services are used, to improve a service-discovery system's usability in medical emergencies