eHealth integration and interoperability issues: Towards a solution through enterprise architecture

Health Information Science and Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Adenuga, Olugbenga A ^a   Kekwaletswe, Ray M ^a   Coleman, Alfred ^b  

^a Department of Information Systems Witwatersrand ^*  (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

eHealth; Enterprise architecture; Interoperability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INVESTMENT; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; ONTOLOGY; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELEHEALTH;

EID: 85018744893     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20472501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13755-015-0009-7     Document Type: Article

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