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Journal of Medical Systems
Published in: Journal of Medical Systems 5/2012

01-10-2012 | Original Paper

Emergency Healthcare Process Automation Using Mobile Computing and Cloud Services

Authors: M. Poulymenopoulou, F. Malamateniou, G. Vassilacopoulos

Published in: Journal of Medical Systems | Issue 5/2012

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Abstract

Emergency care is basically concerned with the provision of pre-hospital and in-hospital medical and/or paramedical services and it typically involves a wide variety of interdependent and distributed activities that can be interconnected to form emergency care processes within and between Emergency Medical Service (EMS) agencies and hospitals. Hence, in developing an information system for emergency care processes, it is essential to support individual process activities and to satisfy collaboration and coordination needs by providing readily access to patient and operational information regardless of location and time. Filling this information gap by enabling the provision of the right information, to the right people, at the right time fosters new challenges, including the specification of a common information format, the interoperability among heterogeneous institutional information systems or the development of new, ubiquitous trans-institutional systems. This paper is concerned with the development of an integrated computer support to emergency care processes by evolving and cross-linking institutional healthcare systems. To this end, an integrated EMS cloud-based architecture has been developed that allows authorized users to access emergency case information in standardized document form, as proposed by the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) profile, uses the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) standard Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL) Hospital Availability Exchange (HAVE) for exchanging operational data with hospitals and incorporates an intelligent module that supports triaging and selecting the most appropriate ambulances and hospitals for each case.
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Metadata
Title
Emergency Healthcare Process Automation Using Mobile Computing and Cloud Services
Authors
M. Poulymenopoulou
F. Malamateniou
G. Vassilacopoulos
Publication date
01-10-2012
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Journal of Medical Systems / Issue 5/2012
Print ISSN: 0148-5598
Electronic ISSN: 1573-689X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-011-9814-y

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