IOS Press Ebooks - CareWeb^™, a Web-based Medical Record for an Integrated Healthcare Delivery System (original) (raw)

CareWeb™, a Web-based Medical Record for an Integrated Healthcare Delivery System

Authors

John D. Halamka, Charles Safran

Pages

36 - 39

DOI

10.3233/978-1-60750-896-0-36

Series

Ebook

Abstract

With the advent of Integrated Healthcare Delivery Systems, medical records are increasingly distributed across multiple institutions. Timely access to these medical records is a critical need for healthcare providers. The CareWeb™ project provides an architecture for World Wide Web-based retrieval of electronic medical records from heterogeneous data sources. Using Health Level 7 (HL7), web technologies and readily available software components, we consolidated the electronic records of Boston's Beth Israel and Deaconess Hospitals. We report on the creation of CareWeb™ (freya.bidmc.harvard.edu/careweb.htm) and propose it as a means to electronically link Integrated Health Care Delivery Systems and geographically distant information resources.