A system for accessing and handling heterogeneous sources of patient data. Application to the rehabilitation domain

Author

Loukil, Adlen ; Fayn, Jocelyns ; Conti, Laurent ; Bortone, Sandro ; Fioretti, Sandro ; Bedini, Remo ; Nentidis, George ; Leo, Tommaso ; Rubel, Paul ; Talbot, Arne

Author_Institution

Inst. Nat. des Sci. Appliquees de Lyon, Villeurbanne, France

Volume

3

fYear

1996

fDate

31 Oct-3 Nov 1996

Firstpage

1240

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to describe a prototype system which has been developed and implemented in the framework of the BRITER AIM project for accessing and handling patient data stored in distributed, heterogeneous multimedia databases in order to support rehabilitation healthcare professionals in making decision

Keywords

access protocols; biomedical telemetry; client-server systems; distributed databases; graphical user interfaces; health care; medical information systems; multimedia communication; object-oriented methods; BRITER AIM project; Internet; LAN; client/server architecture; communication protocols; data model; decision making support; distributed heterogeneous multimedia databases; heterogeneous sources of data; integrated access; open system; patient data accessing; patient data handling; patient information presentation; prototype system; rehabilitation health care; telemedicine; user requirements; Biomedical imaging; Data models; Distributed databases; Electromyography; Force measurement; Image storage; Medical services; Object oriented modeling; Protocols; Prototypes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1996. Bridging Disciplines for Biomedicine. Proceedings of the 18th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Amsterdam

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3811-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1996.652791

Filename

652791