An integrated architecture for the provision of health telematic services based on digital library technologies

International Journal on Digital Libraries

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 257-277

  Tsiknakis, M ^a   Chronaki, C E ^a   Kapidakis, S ^a   Nikolaou, C ^a,b   Orphanoudakis, S C ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Agent based technology; Healthcare information infrastructure; Mediation; Middleware services; Regional healthcare networks; Telematic services; Virtual patient record

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005112177     PISSN: 14325012     EISSN: 14321300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007990050021     Document Type: Article

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