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Image and Signal Processing for Networked eHealth ApplicationsDistributed Collaborative Platforms for Medical Diagnosis over the Internet

Image and Signal Processing for Networked eHealth Applications: Distributed Collaborative... CHAP TE R 7 Distributed Collaborative Platforms for Medical Diagnosis over the Internet 7.1 INTRODUCTION Hospitals are nowadays sufficiently rich in their infrastructure to handle the internal adminis- trative and clinical processes for their inpatients. However, this kind of information exchange is usually reduced at regional level, and the need to integrate the processes in geographically distributed and organizationally independent organizations and medical personnel has arisen. This challenge leads the design of health information applications to combine the principles of heterogeneous Workflow Management Systems (WfMSs), the peer-to-peer networking ar- chitecture, the World Wide Web, and the Visual Integration concepts to facilitate medical information exchange among geographically distributed personnel. Under this scope, the goal of this chapter is to present the concept of Web-based col- laborative systems for the facilitation of physician’s communication at remote locations. Such systems enable communication via audiovisual means through a public network. The Health Level Seven (HL7), the Clinical Data Architecture (CDA), and the Digital Imaging and Com- munications in Medicine (DICOM) standards [1, 2] are used for the transfer and storing of the medical data. 7.2 STATE OF THE ART REVIEW The development of a distributed collaborative system has received the attention of several http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Image and Signal Processing for Networked eHealth ApplicationsDistributed Collaborative Platforms for Medical Diagnosis over the Internet

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Springer International Publishing
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© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2006
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978-3-031-00481-0
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57 –66
DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-01609-7_7
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CHAP TE R 7 Distributed Collaborative Platforms for Medical Diagnosis over the Internet 7.1 INTRODUCTION Hospitals are nowadays sufficiently rich in their infrastructure to handle the internal adminis- trative and clinical processes for their inpatients. However, this kind of information exchange is usually reduced at regional level, and the need to integrate the processes in geographically distributed and organizationally independent organizations and medical personnel has arisen. This challenge leads the design of health information applications to combine the principles of heterogeneous Workflow Management Systems (WfMSs), the peer-to-peer networking ar- chitecture, the World Wide Web, and the Visual Integration concepts to facilitate medical information exchange among geographically distributed personnel. Under this scope, the goal of this chapter is to present the concept of Web-based col- laborative systems for the facilitation of physician’s communication at remote locations. Such systems enable communication via audiovisual means through a public network. The Health Level Seven (HL7), the Clinical Data Architecture (CDA), and the Digital Imaging and Com- munications in Medicine (DICOM) standards [1, 2] are used for the transfer and storing of the medical data. 7.2 STATE OF THE ART REVIEW The development of a distributed collaborative system has received the attention of several

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