title: Integrated breast diseases research and cancer registry in Turkey.
abstract: A system we call BDRS is implemented as an integrated disease specific system for breast diseases in order to obtain and use patient health data for clinical research, cancer registry and clinical care. It is an open, flexible and modular system that supports multi-institutional and multi-viewed utilization of health data. Three-tier web based architecture, and object oriented technologies have been employed to ensure its extendibility. Exchange and sharing of health data have been implemented with XML.
authors.affiliation: Middle East Technical University Informatics Institute, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Oya D
authors.initials: OD
authors.lastname: Kocgil
authors.forename: Nazife
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Baykal
authors.forename: Atac
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Baykal
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research; D001941:Breast Diseases; D001943:Breast Neoplasms; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D012042:Registries; D012984:Software; D018511:Systems Integration; D014421:Turkey