title: MedCom: Danish health care network.
abstract: The Danish Ministry of Health founded MedCom back in 1994. MedCom is acting as an umbrella project organisation, gathering health providers, health care professionals and industry in coordinated, nationwide projects, all aiming to reach large-scale dissemination in few years. Almost all Danish health care organisations and IT-vendors are participating in the projects and today more than 2,500 health institutions are communicating around 2.3 million messages monthly--60% of the total clinical "cross-sector" communication in Danish Health. In the next years the standards are going to be reused inside hospitals and a nationwide secure health care Internet implemented large scale.
authors.affiliation: Danish Centre for Health Telematics, Odense, Denmark.
authors.forename: Henrik
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bjerregaard Jensen
authors.forename: Claus
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Duedal Pedersen
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000592:standards*; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated; D003718:Denmark; D006801:Humans; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D009313:National Health Programs