Primary care provider's acceptance of health information exchange utilizing IHE XDS.

Objective: We assessed primary care providers' perception of a health information exchange system (HIE) based on IHE XDS in the metropolitan area of Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, Germany.

Design: An application enabling access to medical documents in an XDS Affinity Domain was developed. We examined usability and factors related to user acceptance.

Primary care providers' acceptance of health information exchange utilizing IHE XDS.

We assessed primary care providers' perception of a health information exchange system (HIE) based on IHE XDS. The HIE will be part of a regional health network in the metropolitan area of Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, Germany. An application enabling access to medical documents in an XDS Affinity Domain was developed.

Health-enabling technologies for the elderly--an overview of services based on a literature review.

Background: Services for the elderly based on health-enabling technologies promise to contribute significantly to the efficiency and effectiveness of future health care. Due to this promise, over the last years the scientific community has designed a complex variety of these valuable innovations. A systematic overview of the developed services would help to better understand their opportunities and limitations.

A Regional health care network: eHealth.Braunschweig. Domain fields and architectural challenges.

Background: Health care network eHealth.Braunschweig has been started in the South-East region of Lower Saxony in Germany in 2009. It composes major health care players, participants from research institutions and important local industry partners.

Health information systems for home telehealth services--a nomenclature for sensor-enhanced transinstitutional information system architectures.

Home telehealth services for elderly people promise to contribute to a more efficient health care in the future. Though isolated services at a patient's home might make sense for some applications, the full potential of home telehealth only arises through its integration into existing health information systems (HIS) and care processes. We know about traditional HIS architectures.