K.S. Nikita et al. (Eds.): MobiHealth 2011, LNICST 83, pp. 181–188, 2012. © Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering 2012 A New Platform for Delivery Interoperable Telemedicine Services Foteini Andriopoulou and Dimitrios Lymberopoulos Wire Communications Laboratory, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Patras, University Campus, 265 04 Rio Patras, Greece {fandriop,dlympero}@upatras.gr Abstract. This paper represents a new concept for Telemedicine service delivery. It is based over the existed Service Delivery Platforms (SDPs) with the mentality of SOA and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) architecture to provide integration and interoperability in telemedicine aspects over the Next Generation Network (NGN). Telemedicine SDP (T-SDP), which is proposed, is a lighter middleware to provide flexibility and integration in emergency cases. Lighter middleware supports the benefits of SDP, real time monitoring and communicating in responses. T-SDP is able to leverage contexts, semantics and events via a service engine and Parlays. In the same platform events from the biomedicine devices, context from user profiles and messages or ontologies and semantics can interoperate with each other and create complex services useful for the healthcare agents. Keywords: telemedicine, healthcare, interoperability, integration, SDP, ESB, NGN. 1 Introduction According to recent statistic researches, world’s ageing population and average of chronic diseases are increasing rapidly, leading to high demand of healthcare services. Telemedicine involves the delivery of healthcare and related information over long distances, reducing the response time and cost [10]. During the last years many efforts have accomplished to create secure, interoperable, flexible and user-friendly telemedicine systems. Mobile telemedicine has enhanced, smart homes and smart cars have created but the aspect of interoperability, integration and real timing response is always a sensitive and significant issue. Nowadays, there are different types of service buses that are depending on what a device, a web service, etc use as an output e.g. events, contexts or semantics. It is useless, expensive and doesn’t support interoperability to establish different service platforms for all these kinds of ESBs or create a single SDP, which contains all the different types of service buses in order to create an interoperable common service delivery platform that could be standardized and work properly with all enterprises. In this paper we introduce a telemedicine ESB (TSB) in a SDP to solve integrated and