title: Worldwide telemedicine services based on distributed multimedia electronic patient records by using the second generation Web server hyperwave.
abstract: A distributed multimedia electronic patient record (EPR) is a central component of a medicine-telematics application that supports physicians working in rural areas of South America, and offers medical services to scientists in Antarctica. A Hyperwave server is used to maintain the patient record. As opposed to common web servers--and as a second generation web server--Hyperwave provides the capability of holding documents in a distributed web space without the problem of broken links. This enables physicians to browse through a patient's record by using a standard browser even if the patient's record is distributed over several servers. The patient record is basically implemented on the "Good European Health Record" (GEHR) architecture.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Medical Statistics, University of Bonn, Germany.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Quade
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Novotny
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Burde
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: May
authors.forename: L E
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Beck
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Goldschmidt
mesh_terms: D000864:Antarctic Regions; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008498:Medical Record Linkage / Q000379:methods*; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D019212:Multimedia; D019035:Rural Health Services; D012984:Software; D013020:South America; D017216:Telemedicine