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

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 264-271

  Beyer, Mario ^a   Kuhn, Klaus A ^a   Meiler, Christian ^b   Jablonski, Stefan ^b   Lenz, Richard ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Evolutionary information systems; Healthcare networks; Integrated care; Process orientation; Systems integration

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; HEALTH CARE; SEMANTICS; XML;

EVOLUTIONARY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HEALTHCARE NETWORKS; INTEGRATED CARE; PROCESS ORIENTATION; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 2442417954     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/967900.967958     Document Type: Conference Paper

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