Properties of a federated epidemiology query system

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 76, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 664-676

  Bellika, Johan Gustav ^a   Sue, Hoylen ^b   Bird, Linda ^b   Goodchild, Andrew ^b   Hasvold, Toralf ^c   Hartvigsen, Gunnar ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^b CRC for Enterprise Distributed Systems Technology   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Computerised patient records; Distributed systems; Epidemiology; Population surveillance

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERISED PATIENT RECORDS; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS (GP); POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; QUERY SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MEDICAL COMPUTING;

QUERY PROCESSING;

ARTICLE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EVALUATION; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; METHODOLOGY; ONLINE SYSTEM; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FAMILY PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; NORWAY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REGISTRIES; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 34447568310     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2006.05.040     Document Type: Article

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