Open source in health care: A milestone toward the creation of an ICT-based pan-European health facility

IFMBE Proceedings

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 719-722

  Dinevski, Dejan ^a   Inchingolo, P ^b   Krajnc, I ^a   Kokol, P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Health care integration; Health information systems; Interoperability; Open source; Open standards

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; INTEROPERABILITY;

COMPLEX APPLICATIONS; HEALTH FACILITIES; HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SOCIETY; OPEN SOURCES; OPEN STANDARDS; OPEN-SOURCE MODEL; STABLE SOLUTIONS;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

EID: 85007028369     PISSN: 16800737     EISSN: 14339277     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73044-6_187     Document Type: Conference Paper

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