HERMES: a health care workstation integration architecture.
An architecture is described that facilitates integration of existing databases and applications without modifying them. By means of this architecture, data from different sources dispersed in a network can be combined and directly used in existing applications or applications that have been developed specially for integration. This feature of combining data from different sources into one workstation is viewed as the enabling technology on which computer-based patient records can be built. The abstraction of computer-, network- and application-specific details is completely dealt with by the integration architecture. This integration architecture has been developed with extendibility and flexibility in mind, and allows for a growth-path towards application of the open system paradigm in medicine.
van Mulligen
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Department of Medical Informatics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Timmers
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Brand
J
J
Cornet
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van den Heuvel
F
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Kalshoven
M
M
van Bemmel
J H
JH
D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003628:Database Management Systems / Q000145:classification / Q000458:organization & administration; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D006801:Humans; D016490:Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems / Q000145:classification / Q000458:organization & administration; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D012984:Software; D012985:Software Design; D014584:User-Computer Interface