title: Providing easy access to distributed medical data.
abstract: Many hospitals are fragmented along departmental boundaries, leading to islands of information about patients. This makes data integration difficult, and therefore can increase hospital costs and reduce patient care. This paper presents an architecture to provide uniform and transparent access to computerized data and functions available in this kind of heterogeneous computer environment.
authors.affiliation: Philips Laboratories, Briarcliff Manor, New York.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Lord
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tucker
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: DasGupta
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shneier
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003199:Computer Systems; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D012984:Software; D018511:Systems Integration