HealthED: An opened integrate healthcare IT architecture

Abstract

New information technologies provide the technical possibility to solve problems of healthcare information sharing and process integration. This paper proposes an open architecture to support medical services registration and provide healthcare information solutions for the new requirements, from the view of both patients' and clinicians'. It can serve as a complementary part of the current clinical informatics system, which combines the provider-based integration approaches with patient-centered approaches and supports cross-institutional cooperation. Several demonstration healthcare applications are developed to test the usability and performance of this architecture. © 2008 Springer-Verlag.