Reference implementation model for Medical Information Systems' interoperability.

Interoperability, in the electronic environment of healthcare enterprises, is required for the effective communication between the various Medical Information Systems (MISs). However, interoperability is a large and multidimensional issue. Its syntactic dimension is linked with the use of existing messaging standards.

TM-provider: a new communicatory model for telemedicine services support.

In this paper a new model for telemedicine service providers denoted as TM-Provider is presented. The TM-Provider establishes two multilevel controllers for the fully administration of telemedicine sessions conduct. The communication between the controllers' levels is based on an advanced request-respond protocol that addresses the traffic of the messages and applies sophisticated security mechanisms for access and data protection issues.

OTE-TS--a new value-added telematics service for telemedicine applications.

A new telemedicine service denoted as the Hellenic Telecommunication Organization Telemedicine Service (OTE-TS), which addresses an open multidisciplinary group of medical care providers (users), is presented in this paper. OTE-TS is supported by the Hellenic Telecommunication Organization (OTE) and is the result of the close collaboration of engineers, medical doctors, and market analysts. Its architecture provides the user with an integrated electronic working domain handling diverse types of conversational audiovisual information and medical records.

A new concept toward computer-aided medical diagnosis--a prototype implementation addressing pulmonary diseases.

The original concept that led to the structuring of a computer-based medical decision support system (DSS) that is able to support a physician's diagnosis is introduced in this paper. The concept's implementation modeled a generic DSS, the core of which are an integrated knowledge/information base (KIB) along with the inference properties of a data evaluator. The KIB encapsulates the necessary medical knowledge and experience in the form of rules and constraints, preemptive tasks, and actual patients' clinical data.