Designing and implementing the transition to a fully digital hospital

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 6-19

  Pavlopoulos, Sotiris A ^a   Delopoulos, Anastasios N ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Computerized patient record; DICOM; Medical imaging; PACS; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

PICTURE ARCHIVING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM (PACS); TELEMEDICINE;

HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING;

ARTICLE; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL RECORD; TELEMEDICINE;

HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; RADIOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 0033084164     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4233.748971     Document Type: Article

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