Title : 
Simulating collaboration from multiple, potentially non-collaborative healthcare systems to create a single view of a patient
         
        
            Author : 
Grandison, Tyrone W A ; Bhagwan, Varun ; Gruhl, Daniel
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
IBM Services Res., Hawthorne, NY, USA
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
There is still significant investment in legacy healthcare information technology (HIT). Current systems are a diverse mix of technologies, standards, platforms and versions. Many of which were never intended to be used together to achieve a common goal. In order to deliver care effectively and efficiently, point-of-care software must navigate this complex maze, coordinating multiple disparate systems, to produce as holistic a view as possible of a patient´s treatment history, in a timely manner. In this paper, we introduce a specific problem of enabling the collaboration of HIT to facilitate data ingest and integration, present a solution approach and describe a software embodiment that was deployed.
         
        
            Keywords : 
groupware; health care; medical information systems; patient treatment; collaborative work; data ingest; data integration; legacy healthcare information technology; medical information system; noncollaborative healthcare system; patient treatment history; point-of-care software; software embodiment; DICOM; Data acquisition; Feature extraction; Medical services; Monitoring; Pipelines; Standards; Collaborative work; Health care; Information services; Information systems; Medical information systems;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom), 2010 6th International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Chicago, IL
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-963-9995-24-6