Semantic integration in healthcare networks

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 76, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 201-207

  Lenz, Richard ^a   Beyer, Mario ^a   Kuhn, Klaus A ^b  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hospital information systems MeSH ; Information management MeSH ; Information systems MeSH

Indexed keywords

HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTEGRATION STANDARDS;

HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MEDICAL COMPUTING; SEMANTICS; STANDARDS;

HEALTH CARE;

ARCHITECTURE; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; STANDARD;

HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL INFORMATICS APPLICATIONS; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

EID: 33846828669     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2006.05.008     Document Type: Article

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