Healthcare System of Systems

Author

Wickramasinghe, Nilmini ; Chalasani, Suresh ; Boppana, Rajendra V. ; Madni, Asad M.

Author_Institution

Illinois Inst. of Technol., Chicago

fYear

2007

fDate

16-18 April 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Healthcare systems are very diverse, distributed and complex systems in nature. A healthcare system of systems (HSoS) can be defined as a collection of independent, large scale complex, distributed systems. HSoS exhibit operational and managerial independence, geographic distribution and evolutionary development. An SoS perspective is imperative in order to realize network centric healthcare operations. This paper discusses the different components of HSoS, presents concepts of network-centric healthcare and the World Health Information Grid (WHIG).

Keywords

distributed programming; health care; large-scale systems; medical information systems; World Health Information Grid; complex systems; distributed systems; evolutionary development; geographic distribution; healthcare system of systems; managed care systems; network-centric healthcare; Bioterrorism; Government; Hospitals; Large-scale systems; Medical services; Medical treatment; Network servers; Scheduling; Systems engineering and theory; Technology management; Critical Care; Healthcare systems; Hospitals; Managed care systems; network centric healthcare operations; patient centric;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System of Systems Engineering, 2007. SoSE '07. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Antonio, TX

Print_ISBN

1-4244-1159-9

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-1160-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SYSOSE.2007.4304283

Filename

4304283