A new form of application service provider (ASP) in the development of data systems and data flow and management of data in (multiple campus) health care institutions.
There is a distinct lag in the way the informatics management is applied, implemented and used in health care institutions in comparison to other industries. Part of this is caused by strict regulations, but there also seems to be a defined trust and attitude problem from the medical corps towards dependency from automatisation. The only way to guarantee overall advance however is to apply technology implementations which enhance the performance capabilities of the medical corps, the way they already have in other fields. We propose a new model for implementing software applications and their communication on the scale of a multi campus health care institution.
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Christophe R
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Dept. of Emergency Medicine, Monica General Hospital, Florent Pauwelslei 1, B-2100 Antwerp, Belgium. spoedman@skynet.be
D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D005060:Europe; D058016:Health Facility Administration; D008490:Medical Informatics; D010355:Patient Identification Systems; D018511:Systems Integration