title: CareWeb, a web-based medical record for an integrated health care delivery system.
abstract: With the advent of Integrated Health care Delivery Systems, medical records are increasingly distributed across multiple institutions. Timely access to these medical records is a critical need for health care providers. The CareWeb project provides an architecture for World Wide Web-based retrieval of electronic medical records from heterogeneous data sources. Using Health Level 7 (HL7), web technologies and readily available software components, we consolidated the electronic records of Boston's Beth Israel and Deaconess Hospitals. We report on the creation of CareWeb (freya.bidmc.harvard.edu/careweb.htm) and propose it as a means to electronically link Integrated Health care Delivery Systems and geographically distant information resources.
authors: Center for Clinical Computing and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
authors: J D
authors: JD
authors: Halamka
authors: C
authors: C
authors: Osterland
authors: C
authors: C
authors: Safran
mesh_terms: D016494:Computer Security; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D020407:Internet; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized