ARTEMIS

The ARTEMIS project developed a Semantic Web Service-based P2P infrastructure for the interoperability of medical information systems.

The Web Service model encapsulates existing applications and provides access to documents in a standard way. It incorporates service providers, service consumers and service registries.

Service registries (using UDDI and ebXML) and P2P networks based on Web Service architectures do not provide semantically-enriched search capabilities. In the ARTEMIS project we developed extensions to these architectures to enable the discovery of Web Services based on their semantic descriptions. 

ARTEMIS:

• provides an integration environment for disparate applications, both within the health care domain and with the organizations they communicate with;
• enables interoperability through semantically-enriched Web services;
• extends the life of existing software by exposing previously proprietary functions as Web services;
• saves time and money by cutting software development time in the health care domain;
• extends health care enterprises by making their services available to others;
• opens the door to new business opportunities by making it easy to connect with partners in the health care domain; and
• ensures security and privacy.

See the ARTEMIS project Web site for more details

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ARTEMIS received research funding from the EC’s Sixth Framework Programme.