title: CareWeb, a web-based medical record for an integrated healthcare delivery system.
abstract: With the advent of Integrated Healthcare Delivery Systems, medical records are increasingly distributed across multiple institutions. Timely access to these medical records is a critical need for healthcare 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.affiliation: Center for Clinical Computing, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Halamka
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Safran
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D016494:Computer Security; D003219:Confidentiality; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008498:Medical Record Linkage; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000458:organization & administration*