Paper Title
A Conceptual Proposal for Developing and Implementing a Federated E-Health Prototype Platform

Abstract
This paper explains a proposal for a research project that will be focused on specifying, designing, prototyping, and testing a Federated e-Health Portal System that would satisfy the overall requirements by public and private hospitals, medical centers and clinics in Jordan. Extended literature surveys will be conducted and selected staff from the health sector in Jordan (Ministry of Health, Medical Associations, Doctors, Dentist, sample Patients, etc.) will be interviewed and consulted in an effort to collect and formalize a decent set of requirements for the intended e-Health Portal. Health care services in Jordan are provided in each hospital and/or medical center using separated health information management systems. Health care providers (e.g. hospitals, medical centers and privately owned and operated registered clinics) need to be fully integrated such that any patient will be able to visit any doctor anywhere within the country while at the same time his/her record and history is transparent to all of these doctors (e.g. with his/her permission). Also, he/she should be able to get his/her medicine from any pharmacy within the country” The outcome of this research project (e.g. e-Health Portal) would be distinguished from existing systems used in other countries as follows; our e-Health Portal will be comprehensive and specific to Jordan as it will be based on requirements driven directly from the various interviews referenced above. All testing will be driven by those doctors and patients that would have been interviewed at the beginning of the project. Index Terms - e-Health, e-Health Portal, web-based e-Health, e-Health systems, public and private hospitals, Health Jordan, Jordan, software requirements, software architecture, software design, software prototyping, software testing, and software evaluation.