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Telematics In Healthcare

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Medical Image Databases

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The increasing volume of multimedia data used in the delivery of healthcare, combined with advanced imaging technologies, which aid healthcare professionals in accurate diagnosis and timely treatment, call for an infrastructure that can integrate multimedia healthcare record segments. These are typically distributed in the heterogeneous healthcare information systems of a health-telematics network. Thus, current trends in health-telematics motivate the creation of a Healthcare Information Infrastructure (HII), which supports the evolution of media-rich user-oriented services over health-telematics networks. Based on the requirements and a functional services model for the HII, this chapter presents a reference architecture for the HII, which can achieve the horizontal integration of networked information sources. In the framework of this reference architecture specific examples of media-rich useroriented services in a health-telematics network are also presented and discussed.

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  1. Institute of Computer Science, FORTH, Greece Department of Computer Science, University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

    Stelios C. Orphanoudakis

  2. Center for Medical Informatics and Health-Telematics Applications, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH, Crete, Greece

    Catherine E. Chronaki, Manolis Tsiknakis & Stavros G. Kostomanolakis

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Orphanoudakis, S.C., Chronaki, C.E., Tsiknakis, M., Kostomanolakis, S.G. (1998). Telematics In Healthcare. In: Wong, S.T.C. (eds) Medical Image Databases. The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 465. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5553-7_10

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