ABSTRACT
COCOON is a 6th Framework EU project aimed at setting up a semantics-based healthcare information infrastructure with the goal of reducing medical errors. To this end, COCOON offers a set of Web Services to support medical decision for risk management, along with a method for gluing them together through semantics with existing healthcare services from external providers. This paper presents COCOON’s architectural design and describes the two main types of COCOON services: Semantic Information Retrieval, which employs concept-based indexing, and Decision Support, which is based on selected clinical guidelines. Semantic Web Service technologies serve to glue these services in existing healthcare information systems.
