title: Developing a framework for worldwide image communication.
abstract: The increasing mobility of the population and frequent changes in healthcare coverage, in both the government and private sectors, require integration of medical records not only longitudinally, but also across a variety of healthcare providers. Early in 1998, the federal government decided to solve this problem by constructing a framework for access to medical records by all of the government's health care facilities, called the Government Computer-Based Patient Record (GCPR). The government consortium chose a proposal by Litton PRC, a partnership of 11 companies with complementary areas of expertise. The framework is based on open systems, which use publicly available standards, and includes a Master Patient Information Locator that allows access to medical information from remote facilities, based on creating a unique identifier for each and every individual patient. PRC will use the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) imaging standard for radiology, supplemented by Health Level Seven (HL7).
authors.affiliation: Litton PRC, McLean, VA.
authors.forename: A H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Rowberg
authors.forename: W B
authors.initials: WB
authors.lastname: York
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003199:Computer Systems; D003626:Data Display; D019992:Databases as Topic; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D019981:Health Care Sector; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D017149:Private Sector; D017150:Public Sector; D011873:Radiology Information Systems; D019112:Teleradiology; D014584:User-Computer Interface