Medical Informatics

On The Development of Secure Service-Oriented Architectures to Support Medical Research

abstract In this article we report upon our experiences of developing Web-services based infrastructures within two e-health projects. The first—a small demonstrator project funded by the UK’s National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI)—is concerned with facilitating the aggregation of different types of data (specifically, MRI scans and histopathol-ogy slides) to aid the treatment of colorectal cancer; […]

Decision Support With BPEL and Web Services

abstract A review of difficulties experienced with proprietary guidelines languages and in clinical decision support has led us to the development of a decision support system (DSS) based on a service oriented architecture (SOA) using Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) and Web services. BPEL allows simple branching conditions and tests to be set based on […]

A Framework for the Design of Web Service Based Clinical Management Systems to Support Inter and Intra Organizational Patient Journeys

abstract The clinical management of premature and ill term babies is challenged by the necessity of several inter and intra organizational patient journeys. Premature and ill-term babies born in regional Australia and Canada must be moved to another hospital with Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) facilities. NICU babies requiring surgery must be moved to a […]

Conceptual Framework for Mobile-Based Application in Healthcare

abstract The significance of aligning IT with corporate strategy is widely recognised, but the lack of an appropriate framework often prevents practitioners from integrating emerging Internet technologies (like Web services and mobile technologies) within organisations’ strategies effectively. This topic introduces a framework that addresses the issue of deploying Web services strategically within a mobile-based healthcare […]

Design of an Enhanced 3G-Based Mobile Healthcare System

abstract An enhanced mobile healthcare multi-collaborative system operating over Third Generation (3G) mobile networks is presented. This topic describes the design and use of this system in different medical and critical emergency scenarios provided with universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS) accesses. In these environments, it is designed to communicate healthcare personnel with medical specialists in […]

The M-Health Reference Model: An Organizing Framework for Conceptualizing Mobile Health Systems

abstract The reference model presented in this article encourages the breakdown of M-Health systems into the following five key dimensions: (1) Communication Infrastructure: a description of mobile telecommunication technologies and networks; (2) Device Type: the type of device being used, such as PDA, sensor, or tablet PC; (3) Data Display: describes how the data will […]

Creating a Multimedia Instructional Product for Medical School Students

abstract Because most medical school textbooks do not adequately address pain management, the American Academy of Pain Medicine wanted to create TOP MED, an online textbook that would address this need for different specialties and which also could be used as a textbook for the Introduction to Pain Management course. This online textbook would cover […]

Intelligent Agents Framework for RFID Hospitals

abstract When dealing with human lives, the need to utilize and apply the latest technology to help in saving and maintaining patients’ lives is quite important and requires accurate, near-real-time data acquisition and evaluation. At the same time, the delivery of a patient’s medical data needs to be as fast and as secure as possible. […]

Design and Development of Standards (HL7 V3) Based Enterprise Architecture for Public Health Programs Integration at the County of Los Angeles

abstract Public Health (PH) applications in County of Los Angeles (LAC), Department of PH have been developed to meet individual PH program’s goals. This resulted in lack of county-wide PH data integration, efficiency, and usefulness. LAC encouraged the development of web-based applications utilizing standards-based PH Information Network interoperable service-oriented architecture (SOA). The goal was to […]

The Development of a Health Data Quality Programme

abstract Data quality requirements are increasing as a wider range of data becomes available and the technology to mine data shows the value of data that is “fit for use.” This topic describes a data quality programme for the New Zealand Ministry of Health that first isolates the criteria that define “fitness” and then develops […]

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