Towards a flexible, process-oriented IT architecture for an integrated healthcare network

Lenz R, Beyer M, Kuhn K, Meiler C, Jablonski S (2004)

Publication Language: English

Publication Type: Conference contribution, Original article

Publication year: 2004

Edited Volumes: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Pages Range: 264-271

Conference Proceedings Title: ACM 2004

Event location: Nicosia, Cyprus CY

Abstract

Healthcare information systems play an important role in improving healthcare quality. As providing healthcare increasingly changes from isolated treatment episodes towards a continuous medical process involving multiple healthcare professionals and institutions, there is an obvious need for an information system to support processes and span the whole healthcare network. A suitable architecture for such an information system must take into account that it has to work as an integral part of a complex socio-technical system with changing conditions and requirements. We have surveyed the core requirements of healthcare professionals and analysed the literature for known problems and information needs. We consolidated the results to define use cases for an integrated information system as communication patterns, from which general implications on the required properties of a healthcare network information system could be derived. Key issues are flexibility, adaptability, robustness, integration of existing systems and standards, semantic compatibility, security and process orientation, Based on these results an IT architecture is being designed that is capable of addressing the requirements mostly on the basis of well-established standards and concepts.

Authors with CRIS profile

Richard Lenz Professur für evolutionäres Datenmanagement

Involved external institutions

Philipps-Universität Marburg DE Germany (DE) Technische Universität München (TUM) DE Germany (DE)

How to cite

APA:

Lenz, R., Beyer, M., Kuhn, K., Meiler, C., & Jablonski, S. (2004). Towards a flexible, process-oriented IT architecture for an integrated healthcare network. In ACM 2004 (pp. 264-271). Nicosia, Cyprus, CY.

MLA:

Lenz, Richard, et al. "Towards a flexible, process-oriented IT architecture for an integrated healthcare network." Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), Nicosia, Cyprus 2004. 264-271.

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