title: The importance of Java and CORBA in medicine.
abstract: One of the most powerful tools available for telemedicine is a multimedia medical record accessible over a wide area and simultaneously editable by multiple physicians. The ability to do this through an intuitive interface linking multiple distributed data repositories while maintaining full data integrity is a fundamental enabling technology in healthcare. We discuss the role of distributed object technology using Java and CORBA in providing this capability including an example of such a system (TeleMed) which can be accessed through the World Wide Web. Issues of security, scalability, data integrity, and usability are emphasized.
authors.affiliation: Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, USA.
authors.forename: D W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Forslund
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Cook
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003199:Computer Systems; D008498:Medical Record Linkage; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D019212:Multimedia; D011381:Programming Languages; D012984:Software; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000379:methods