Towards a Healthcare Interoperability Framework Based on Medical Business Artifacts, Social Networks, and Communities of Healthcare Professionals

This chapter looks into the challenges facing healthcare Information Systems interoperability from a technological perspective and how to address some of these challenges using three concepts, namely medical artifacts, social networks, and communities. Medical artifacts represent chunks of information that healthcare practitioners act upon and exchange as part of their daily activities. Social networks reflect interactions occurring between these practitioners when performing joint activities. Finally, communities illustrate pockets of expertise capable of collaborating with respect to pre-defined protocols. © 2012, IGI Global

Towards a Framework for Weaving Social Networks Into Mobile Commerce

International audienceThis paper discusses a framework that supports weave social networks into mobile commerce. This weaving takes place through different types of social networks that identify the stakeholders taking part in completing mobile commerce scenarios. These stakeholders are consumers, providers, and brokers and are connected to each other through relationships such as competition, referral, loyalty, and collaboration. Each relationship is mapped onto a social network upon which a stakeholder relies before engaging in any of these scenarios and afterwards, making any decision. The value-added of social networks to mobile commerce is illustrated with a set of experiments implementing a smart mobile restaurant guide