title: The RITHME inter-mediation platform for data exchanges between healthcare professionals.
abstract: Data Exchanges between Healthcare Professionals are always limited to paper. For letters, reports, results, the physicians and hospitals are yet using the classical post-office mailing system. With the growing development of Medical Informatics within the Hospital Information Systems and the GPs offices, the way to exchange medical data will be more and more oriented towards the Telematics procedures. If Tele-consultation, video-conferencing applications appear as routine procedures, a safe, protected, and rapid transmission of medical data and records through electronic mailing systems is not yet really available. The Rithme Intermediation Platform is an experimental product, tested in the town of Armentières (in the City of Lille) in the North of France to allow a better, safer, more rapid electronic communication between all the professionals of a geographical sector. One of the mail component of this platform is the "Events Server" which collects and displays all the available information concerning a dedicated patient to the medical authorized correspondents. To realise this task the Rithme Platform takes charge of 4 main functions: formatting the messages, assuring the security, managing the directories, notifying emergencies. Currently experienced with success in the City of Lille, this Platform will be soon customised and commercialized.
authors.affiliation: Université Lille2, Faculté de Médecine, CERIM.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Beuscart
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Beuscart-Zéphir
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Renard
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Delerue
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Souf
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003199:Computer Systems; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D010348:Patient Care Team; D017216:Telemedicine