TY - GEN
T1 - Interoperability issues in sharing electronic healthcare records-the Synapses approach
AU - Grimson, J.
AU - Felton, E.
AU - Stephens, G.
AU - Grimson, W.
AU - Berry, D.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 1997 IEEE.
PY - 1997
Y1 - 1997
N2 - This paper describes the approach to information sharing being adopted by Synapses, a pan-European project funded under the EU Health Telematics Programme. The emphasis in Synapses is on developing standards to enable sharing, in whole or in part, of electronic healthcare records between distributed healthcare providers and institutions. The current technological solutions available for data sharing, including federated database systems, gateways, data warehousing, messaging and the web are insufficient on their own to meet the needs of Synapses. Thus in Synapses several different, but complementary technologies are merged in an open, distributed object-oriented environment. Furthermore, in order to safeguard the legal, ethical and clinical integrity of the record, it is essential not only to preserve the meaning of the data being transferred, but also its context and structure. Synapses solves this problem by defining a standard architecture for the federated electronic healthcare record.
AB - This paper describes the approach to information sharing being adopted by Synapses, a pan-European project funded under the EU Health Telematics Programme. The emphasis in Synapses is on developing standards to enable sharing, in whole or in part, of electronic healthcare records between distributed healthcare providers and institutions. The current technological solutions available for data sharing, including federated database systems, gateways, data warehousing, messaging and the web are insufficient on their own to meet the needs of Synapses. Thus in Synapses several different, but complementary technologies are merged in an open, distributed object-oriented environment. Furthermore, in order to safeguard the legal, ethical and clinical integrity of the record, it is essential not only to preserve the meaning of the data being transferred, but also its context and structure. Synapses solves this problem by defining a standard architecture for the federated electronic healthcare record.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/33748024261
U2 - 10.1109/ICECCS.1997.622309
DO - 10.1109/ICECCS.1997.622309
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33748024261
T3 - Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems, ICECCS
SP - 180
EP - 185
BT - Proceedings - 3rd IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems, ICECCS 1997
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 3rd IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems, ICECCS 1997
Y2 - 8 September 1997 through 12 September 1997
ER -