Interoperability in Health Care

With the advancement of technology, all patient information has been being computerized in order to facilitating the work of healthcare professionals and to improve de quality of healthcare delivery. However, there are many heterogeneous information systems that need to communicate so as to share information and to make it available when and where it is needed. To respond to this requirement it was created the Agency for Integration, Dissemination and Archiving of medical information (AIDA), a multi-agent and service based platform that ensures interoperability among healthcare information systems. In order to improve the performance of the platform, beyond the SWOT analysis performed, it was created a system to prevent failures that may occur in the platform database and also in machines where the agents are executed. It was possible conclude that in the Centro Hospitalar do Porto, the critical workload of AIDA is the period between 10:00 and 12:00.