Biomedical subjects

M Poulymenopoulou

Publications and source records attributed to M Poulymenopoulou.

5 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed2004

An electronic patient record implementation using clinical document architecture.

Electronic patient records (EPRs) provide the means for integrated access to patient information that may be scattered across dispersed healthcare organizations that, in general, use heterogeneous systems in order to support their internal functions. XML language and Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) provides a mechanism for defining, structuring, manipulating and visualizing patient medical data using the same semantics through web. In this paper, a prototype implementation of a web-based electronic patient record (EPR) system using XML for data format and CDA for defining and structuring patient clinical documents is presented.

Databases as Topic↗

PubMed2003

Specifying workflow process requirements for an emergency medical service.

Recent trends in healthcare delivery have led to a gradual shift in the conceptualisation of healthcare information systems towards supporting healthcare processes in a more direct way. The move towards integrated and managed care, which requires designing healthcare processes around patient needs and incorporating efficiency considerations has led to an increased interest in process-oriented healthcare information systems based on workflow technology. This means to actively deliver the tasks to be performed to the right persons at the right time with the necessary information and the application functions needed. Moreover, workflow technology promotes a component-oriented development whereby the process logic is separated from application logic. This paper presents an approach to capturing process logic requirements for healthcare workflow systems with a view to design a system that is easily adjustable to process changes and to evolving organizational structures at a reasonable cost.

Efficiency, Organizational↗

PubMed2003

Emergency healthcare process automation using workflow technology and web services.

Emergency healthcare delivery involves a variety of interrelated activities performed from the time of a call to the ambulance service until the time of patient's exit from the emergency department of a hospital. As these activities can be viewed as parts of inter-organizational healthcare processes that involve at least two organizations (e.g. an ambulance service and a hospital), there is a need to provide the appropriate technological infrastructure for automating and managing these processes even in cases where the organizations involved use heterogeneous systems to support their internal services. Web-based workflow systems in conjunction with web services present a new way for service-oriented integration (SOI) of disparate systems and for developing distributed applications within and between organizations. Thus, process automation with the use of web services can provide an appropriate infrastructure for the integration of pre-hospital and in-hospital emergency healthcare. A prototype development of such a system is presented in this paper.

Ambulances↗

PubMed2003

Enabling virtual emergency healthcare enterprises using Web services.

Emergency healthcare delivery involves a variety of activities performed from the time of a call to the ambulance service till the time of patient's disposal from the emergency department of a hospital. As these activities are performed in at least two organizations (i.e. ambulance service and hospital) and they are interrelated to form inter-organizational healthcare processes, collaboration and coordination become a vital issue for patients and for emergency healthcare service performance. Web-based workflow systems in conjunction with web services present a new way for service-oriented integration (SOI) of disparate systems and for developing distributed applications within and between organizations. Thus, through process automation and the use of web services ambulance service and hospital emergency departments can automate their operations by making information available where and when needed and by providing an infrastructure for the integration of pre-hospital and in-hospital emergency healthcare. A prototype implementation of this approach is presented in this paper.

Computer Systems↗

PubMed2002

A web-based workflow system for emergency healthcare.

Emergency healthcare delivery involves a variety of activities performed from the time of a call to the ambulance service till the time of patient's disposal from the emergency department of a hospital. Workflow systems have recently received considerable attention in the healthcare field since they overcome organizational structures and support collaboration and coordination requirements by automatically routing relevant information where and when needed. In particular, healthcare workflow systems implemented over the Web can form the basis for a collaborative environment by bringing together healthcare professionals who are geographically dispersed and, hence, creating virtual healthcare workgroups organized around patient care. In this paper, a web-based workflow system is presented that was developed to support emergency healthcare processes and to provide an infrastructure for the integration of pre-hospital and in-hospital emergency healthcare.

Emergency Service, Hospital↗