APHR: Annotated Personal Health Record for Enabling Pervasive Healthcare

In this paper, we are interested in the context of the French government's new efforts to put into practice the concept of the "personal health record (PHR)". We propose an ontology-based solution to improve the access to PHR and to extend it with the annotations that the patient can add and that will constitute the Annotated PHR. We consider that each user can manage the annotations access policies. We also develop an ontology-based solution for granting medical agents with useful, authorized and relevant information, which adopts XACML query rewriting mechanisms. The paper illustrates how the proposed framework could assist patients during their travels, when an unexpected health disorder takes place and the suitable specialist is not available.