title: Integrated electronic health records management system.
abstract: Computer systems and communication technologies are making a strong and influential presence in the different fields of medicine. The cornerstone of a functional medical information system represents the electronic health records management system. Due to a very sensitive nature of medical information, such systems are faced with a number of stringent requirements, like security and confidentiality of patients' related data, different media type's management, diversity of medical data that need to be processed etc. At present most clinical software systems are closed with little or no operability between them, and the medical information are locked in a variety of different incompatible databases. As the result of these facts, it is very hard for the developers to provide the solution for an integrated health computing environment, which would considerably improve the quality of medical care in general. This paper presents the framework for a functional EHR management system that meets these demands, but also follows the initiative taken by the Next Generation Network (NGN) approach, which includes user mobility, service transparency and common communication platform for transferring and serving different types of information, services and media.
authors.affiliation: University La Sapienza of Rome-Center for Biomedical Research. Paola.Diacomo@uniroma1.it
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Di Giacomo
authors.forename: Fabrizio L
authors.initials: FL
authors.lastname: Ricci
authors.forename: Leonardo
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bocchi
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003219:Confidentiality; D003628:Database Management Systems; D006801:Humans; D019451:Information Management; D007558:Italy; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000458:organization & administration*; D018511:Systems Integration; D013685:Telecommunications