title: Communication technologies in health care environments.
abstract: A successful implementation of hierarchical health care networks is dependent on a number of different technical and non technical factors. This paper investigates how the networking technologies, both 'traditional' and broadband, can support the communication requirements of medical environments. The general purpose is to implement communication infrastructures and services, which will improve the collaboration between the different partners in the health sector in offering better healthcare services at affordable costs.
authors.affiliation: Department of Informatics, University of Thessaloniki, Greece. apombo@ccf.auth.gr
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Pombortsis
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration; D003198:Computer Simulation; D016288:Computer Terminals; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D020407:Internet; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration; D018511:Systems Integration; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration