The lower Saxony bank of health rationale, principles, services, organization and architectural framework

Methods of Information in Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 73-81

  Plischke, M ^a   Wagner, Markus ^a   Haarbrandt, B ^b   Rochon, M ^a   Schwartze, J ^b   Tute, E ^b   Bartkiewicz, T ^c   Kleinschmidt, T ^d   Seidel, C ^c   Schuttig H ^c   Haux, R ^b  

^a The Lower Saxony Bank of Health ^*  (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^c KLINIKUM BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^d Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians Lower Saxony   (Germany)

Author keywords

eHealth; Electronic health record; Health information exchange; Health record bank; IHE XDS

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEM; DATA BASE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; GERMANY; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL RECORD; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DATABASES AS TOPIC; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; GERMANY; HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGE; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; ORGANIZATIONAL OBJECTIVES;

EID: 84897929788     PISSN: 00261270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3414/ME13-02-0003     Document Type: Article

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