Title :
Healthcare System of Systems
Author :
Wickramasinghe, Nilmini ; Chalasani, Suresh ; Boppana, Rajendra V. ; Madni, Asad M.
Author_Institution :
Illinois Inst. of Technol., Chicago
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/SYSOSE.2007.4304283
