title: Towards a component driven infrastructure for integrated healthcare systems.
abstract: A high level summarised description of the distributed clinical information system implemented in the hospital of the free university of Brussels (AZ-VUB) is described. It evolves towards a component based clinical distributed system that consists of a set of co-operating middelware software components running on a number of computers connected by a network that will foster the integration of applications, data servers and other resources in the medical field. This system is implemented in the University Hospital of Brussels (AZ-VUB) a full-service 800-bed university hospital that provides care for 23,000 inpatients, supports over 300,000 outpatient visits and receives 32,000 emergency patients a year.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Informatics, University Hospital Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Van de Velde
mesh_terms: D001530:Belgium; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006801:Humans; D012984:Software; D012985:Software Design; D018511:Systems Integration; D014584:User-Computer Interface