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HERMES: a health care workstation integration architecture

1994; Elsevier BV; Volume: 34; Issue: 1-4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/0020-7101(94)90027-2

1878-366X

Erik M. van Mulligen, T. Timmers, Jaap Brand, Ronald Cornet, F van den Heuvel, M Kalshoven, Jan H. van Bemmel,

Electronic Health Records Systems

An architecture is described that facilitates integration of existing databases and applications without modifying them. By means of this architecture, data from different sources dispersed in a network can be combined and directly used in existing applications or applications that have been developed specially for integration. This feature of combining data from different sources into one workstation is viewed as the enabling technology on which computer-based patient records can be built. The abstraction of computer-, network- and application-specific details is completely dealt with by the integration architecture. This integration architecture has been developed with extendibility and flexibility in mind, and allows for a growth-path towards application of the open system paradigm in medicine.