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For the latter we describe the Organ Transplant Management Application (OTMA), one of the demonstrator applications developed. Keywords. Provenance, software agents, healthcare. 1. Introduction The importance of understanding the process by which a result was generated is fundamental to many real-life applications in science, engineering, medical domain, supply management, etc. Without such information, users cannot reproduce, analyze or validate processes or experiments. Provenance is therefore important to enable users, scientists and engineers to trace how a particular result came about.

We have two interoperability problems to access the vital signs measured by these devices: the first one is the technical interoperability problem to access the vital signs physically: there may be different protocols implemented by different medical device vendors. In SAPHIRE architecture we are addressing the technical level interoperability problem by exposing the sensor data through Web Services. The sensor data is gathered through Bluetooth from wireless sensor devices to a gateway computer where they are exposed as Web services.

34] O. Nee, A. Hein, T. Gorath, N. H. G. B. Laleci, M. Yuksel, M. Olduz, I. Tasyurt, U. Orhan, A. Dogac, A. Fruntelata, S. Ludwig, “SAPHIRE: Intelligent Healthcare Monitoring based on Semantic Interoperability Platform - Pilot Applications,” Accepted forIEEE Proceedings Communications-Special Issue on Telemedicine and a-Health Communication Systems. Gokce B. tr Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies, 45–63 c 2007 Birkh¨auser Verlag Basel/Switzerland EU PROVENANCE Project: An Open Provenance Architecture for Distributed Applications ´ Javier V´azquez-Salceda, Sergio Alvarez, Tam´as Kifor, L´aszl´o Z.