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Title:
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THE OPEN-SOURCE INTEGRATING THE HEALTHCARE ENTERPRISE (IHE) |
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Author(s):
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Bruno Alves, Michael Schumacher |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8939-49-6 |
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Editors:
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Mário Macedo |
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Year:
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2011 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise, Healthcare, Open-Source, Document Exchange, e-Health, Interoperability. |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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105 |
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Last Page:
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112 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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IHE has an increasingly great importance in delivering optimal patient care [1]. By pushing the integration of well-accepted standards in the healthcare domain, the IHE initiative improves interoperability between heterogeneous systems. The work described in this paper strives to give researchers enough information about open-source applied to IHE to get started with small-to-medium scale medical informatics research projects. In this context, we present free / open-source implementations of several IHE Profiles participating in the architecture of a very precise yet common motivation scenario: the medical document exchange. The objective of this work is to show that open-source applications may be successfully used in sensitive contexts such as healthcare, provided that scope and potential issues are well considered. Discussion at the end of this work informs on strengths and weaknesses of the presented frameworks as well as of the open-source model itself. |
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