A scalable and self-adapting notification framework for healthcare information systems

ABSTRACT

There has been a great interest in publish/subscribe systems in recent years. This interest, coupled with the pervasiveness of lightweight electronic devices, such as cellular phones and PDAs, have opened a new arena in publish/subscribe networks. Currently, many broker overlay networks are static and never change in structure. Often, a network overlay structure is predefined or manually manipulated. We present a dynamic broker network in the context of disseminating critical labs and patient information in a Healthcare Information System (HIS). Our work builds upon previous network optimization research on ad-hoc publish/subscribe networks. Our framework utilizes user-defined heuristic cost functions to satisfy QoS constraints. We also address certain reliability issues by providing a scheduling algorithm to selectively retransmit information.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  C. Computer Systems Organization
  C.2 COMPUTER-COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
      C.2.4 Distributed Systems
          Subjects: Distributed applications

General Terms:
Algorithms, Experimentation, Performance, Reliability, Security

Keywords:
healthcare information systems, publish/subscribe networks