An integrated healthcare information system for end-to-end standardized exchange and homogeneous management of digital ECG formats

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 518-529

  Trigo, Jesús Daniel ^a   Martínez, Ignacio ^a   Alesanco, Álvaro ^a   Kollmann, Alexander ^b   Escayola, Javier ^a   Hayn, Dieter ^c   Schreier, Günter ^c   García, José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b ELGA GmbH   (Austria)

^c AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

ECG; enterprise systems; healthcare integrated systems; management; standard

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESS EXECUTION LANGUAGE; COMMUNICATIONS PROTOCOLS; COMPUTER ASSISTED; DIGITAL ECG; ENTERPRISE INFORMATION SYSTEM; ENTERPRISE SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE INFORMATION SYSTEM; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; SIMPLE OBJECT ACCESS PROTOCOLS; VISUALIZATION APPLICATION;

CONDITION MONITORING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE; MANAGEMENT; STANDARDS; VISUALIZATION; WEB SERVICES; XML;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DATA BASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; MEDICAL INFORMATICS;

DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS APPLICATIONS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84863526330     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2012.2191296     Document Type: Article

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