Testing conformance and inter - Operability of eHealth applications

Methods of Information in Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 281-289

  Namli, T ^a   Dogac, A ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Medical informatics applications; Software validation; Standards; Systems integration

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; MEDICAL RECORD; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; STANDARD; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

EID: 77952378280     PISSN: 00261270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3414/ME09-02-0022     Document Type: Article

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