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health information management, personal health risk assessment and
guidance, dynamic personal health monitoring and real-time early
warning, active recommendation of personalized medical treatment,
active seasonal disease warning, and other health care services for
individuals. Moreover, for some specific diseases, the platform can
provide remote medical care services.
SOA principles are used to guide the system design, and Web
service technologies are adopted as the computation infrastructure. In
the platform, most functional modules are packaged as services. To
realize the personalized customization and active recommendation of
health care services for individuals, while providing them with intelli-
gent health information management, several key techniques for service
composition are integrated in the platform. Branch and parallel struc-
tures are introduced into the process models of composite services.
These structures allows a composition to meet users' diverse and
personalized needs in changing application environments.
In our implemented platform, some functions and services require
improvements. For example, for specific diseases, we adopt some
relatively simple data analysis models, and diagnostic and decision-
making systems. The present medical and health care platform is still a
research and demonstration system. For large-scale commercial appli-
cations, much more work is needed. Further improvement and optimi-
zation of the proposed composition methods supporting branch and
parallel structures are future avenue of research, which may involve
learning from work on automatic program synthesis with different
control structures.
