Perspectives of Information Processing in Medical Applications

1. Front Matter

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2. Executive Summary

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Challenges and Opportunities

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   3. Status and Trends

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   4. Shaping Forces

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   5. Recommendations

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3. Main Report

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Background

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   3. Goals of a Future Action

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   4. Proposed Framework for Analysis and Definition of Actions

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   5. Guidelines for the Identification of Needed Actions

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   6. Identification of Major IHE Requirements and Priority Tasks

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4. Issue Analyses

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Alphanumeric Data and Text Coding Standards

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   3. Images and Biosignals, with Coding Standards

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   4. Medical Instrumentation and Devices

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   5. Knowledge Based and Decision Support Systems

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   6. Multimedia Workstations

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   7. Communication Networks and Archiving Systems

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   8. Modularity and Integration of Medical and Health Information Systems

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Europe faces a challenge: how to apply information and communication technologies to health care. One problem is the widening gap between the expectations of citizens and the limited resources available to provide health services. It is here that advanced technology can serve as an important tool to find innovative and more efficient ways of delivering health services. This book reports the summary of a study performed under contract by a team of consultants for Directorate-General XIII of the Commission of the European Communities. It analyses the key factors governing the evolution of advanced information systems for health care and medicine in Europe and provides guidelines for placing current and future work within the framework of the Community research and development programmes.

• Gesundheitsvorsorge
• IHE
• Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien
• Informationstechnik
• Kommunikationstechnik
• Medizinische Informatik
• calculus
• computer science
• informatics
• information and communications technologies
• integrated health information environment
• medical informatics
• multimedia
• networks
• standardization

• Dept. d’Informatique Médicale, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

  Francis H. Roger France

• Commission of the European Communities, Brussels, Belgium

  Gérald Santucci

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