Long-term experience with setup and implementation of an IHE-based image management and distribution system in intersectoral clinical routine.

Purpose: Sharing of medical data is crucial for the proper treatment of patients as it could reduce the risk of duplicated medical tests and speed up the care process if all documents are readily available. Despite great technical progress, sharing patient data while maintaining full control over the process in an intersectoral (in Germany, this describes the different actors in the healthcare system consisting of clinic, ambulatory care, etc.) setting remains a particular challenge.

On Teaching International Courses on Health Information Systems. Lessons Learned during 16 Years of Frank - van Swieten Lectures on Strategic Information Management in Health Information Systems.

Background: Health information systems (HIS) are one of the most important areas for biomedical and health informatics. In order to professionally deal with HIS well-educated informaticians are needed. Because of these reasons, in 2001 an international course has been established: The Frank - van Swieten Lectures on Strategic Information Management of Health Information Systems.

[The role of Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) in telemedicine].

Background: Telemedicine systems are today already used in a variety of areas to improve patient care. The lack of standardization in those solutions creates a lack of interoperability of the systems. Internationally accepted standards can help to solve the lack of system interoperability.

CSI-ISC--Concepts for smooth integration of health care information system components into established processes of patient care.

Objectives: The introduction of information system components (ISCs) usually leads to a change in existing processes, e.g. processes of patient care.