title: eHealth vision towards cooperative patient care--domain fields and architectural challenges of regional health care networks.
abstract: Numerous eHealth projects and efforts to establish inter-organizational communication and to build up regional health care networks could be observed in the last ten years. Nevertheless the success of such efforts is profoundly different. The aim of this paper is to introduce the lately started regional initiative eHealth.Braunschweig compounding of the major health care players (hospitals, physician offices, nursing services and nursing homes) in the region of Braunschweig, participants from research institutions and industry. We propose in this paper the main goals of the regional initiative eHealth.Braunschweig, its constitution and major approaches. Based on respective literature and our former projects as well as experiences in this field we discuss our vision of a patient-oriented cooperative health care by depicting regional distinctions, identifying the major domain fields in this context and discussing the architectural challenges for the regional health care network eHealth.Braunschweig. In our view this work can be considered as a systematical approach to the establishment of regional health care networks with lasting and sustainable effects on patient-centered health care in a region.
authors.affiliation: Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics, University of Braunschweig and Hanover Medical School, Germany. nathalie.gusew@plri.de
authors.forename: Nathalie
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authors.lastname: Gusew
authors.forename: Annekatrin
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authors.lastname: Gerlach
authors.forename: Thomas
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authors.lastname: Bartkiewicz
authors.forename: Michael
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authors.lastname: Goldapp
authors.forename: Reinhold
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authors.lastname: Haux
authors.forename: Ulrich
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authors.lastname: Heller
authors.forename: Nils
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authors.lastname: Hellrung
authors.forename: Horst-P
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authors.lastname: Kierdorf
authors.forename: Thorsten
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authors.lastname: Kleinschmidt
authors.forename: Ulrich
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authors.lastname: Markurth
authors.forename: Michael
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authors.lastname: Marschollek
authors.forename: Maik
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authors.lastname: Plischke
authors.forename: Rainer
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authors.lastname: Schubert
authors.forename: Christoph
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authors.lastname: Seidel
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authors.lastname: Wiegmann
mesh_terms: D019058:Community Networks / Q000639:trends*; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000639:trends*; D005544:Forecasting; D005858:Germany; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000639:trends*; D012041:Regional Medical Programs / Q000639:trends*