Synapses in the context of healthcare information systems
Grimson, W.; Sottile, P.A.
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 45: 30-39
1997
ISSN/ISBN: 0926-9630 PMID: 10175369 Document Number: 482506
The Electronic Healthcare Record will increasingly lie at the heart of the Healthcare Information Systems of the future, and the ability to share safely and meaningfully patient records between Hospital Information Systems depends crucially on an agreed architecture for EHCR. This paper describes the approach to providing access to Federated Healthcare Records as proposed by Synapses, a pan-European project funded under the EU Health Telematics Programme, through the use of a record server. The positioning of this server within the Healthcare Information Systems Architecture is discussed together with some suitable candidate technologies for implementation.