Chapter IV Medical Information Representation Framework for Mobile Healthcare

In mobile healthcare, medical information are often expressed in different formats due to the local poli- cies and regulations and the heterogeneity of the applications, systems, and the adopted Information and Communication technology. This chapter describes a framework which enables medical information, in particular clinical vital signs and professional annotations, be processed, exchanged, stored and managed modularly and flexibly in a mobile, distributed and heterogeneous environment despite the diversity of the formats used to represent the information. To deal with medical information represented