Sharing electronic medical records across multiple heterogeneous and competing institutions.
Most early reports of implemented World-Wide Web (W3) medical record systems describe single institution architectures. We describe W3-EMRS, a multi-institutional architecture, and its implementation. Thorny problems in data sharing underlined by the W3-EMRS project are reviewed.
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Children's Hospital Informatics Program, Boston, MA, USA.
van Wingerde
F J
FJ
Fackler
J C
JC
Cimino
C
C
Kilbridge
P
P
Murphy
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S
Chueh
H
H
Rind
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D
Safran
C
C
Barnett
O
O
Szolovits
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P
D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000592:standards; D016494:Computer Security; D003199:Computer Systems; D003219:Confidentiality; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D008498:Medical Record Linkage / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000295:instrumentation; D012984:Software; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled