Virtual health platform for medical tourism purposes.
This paper introduces an overview of the Virtual Health Platform (VHP), an alternative approach to create a functional PHR system in a medical tourism environment. The proposed platform has been designed in order to be integrated with EHR infrastructures and in this way it expects to be useful and more advantageous to the patient or tourist. Use cases of the VHP and its potential benefits summarize the analysis.
Martinez
Debora
D
e-Government, e-Business and e-Health, Fundació IBIT, Spain.
Ferriol
Pedro
P
Tous
Xisco
X
Cabrer
Miguel
M
Prats
Mercedes
M
D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D008498:Medical Record Linkage / Q000592:standards; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000592:standards; D012015:Reference Standards; D013030:Spain; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014195:Travel; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled