Abstract Progress in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) is shaping more
and more the healthcare domain. ICTs adoption provides new opportunities, as well as …

The latest dramatic progress in the technologies of the computer industry is likely to
increasingly influence the oncologist's daily routine. Besides well known and established …

A seamless support of information flow for increasingly distributed healthcare processes
requires to integrate heterogeneous IT systems into a comprehensive distributed information …

This paper aims at identifying the specific legal requirements concerning data security and
data protection of patient health data that apply to a cross-institutional electronic patient …

Objectives: To meet the challenge for high quality and efficient care, highly specialized and
distributed healthcare establishments have to communicate and co-operate in a …

Healthcare organisations aim to provide high-quality, cost-effective healthcare delivery; to
do this they must manage a large amounts of information. A fundamental concern in health …

The interconnection of heterogeneous computer applications in medicine raises the issue of
semantic interoperability, going beyond traditional approaches of terminological …

Based on the component paradigm for software engineering as well as on a consideration of
common middleware approaches for health information systems, a generic component …

A toolset using object-oriented techniques including the nowadays popular unified
modelling language (UML) approach has been developed to facilitate the different users' …

A continuous technological innovation in software has brought development in integration
technologies that promise the real time enterprise-wide systems integration. Healthcare …