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Authors:
Artur Binczewski
Krzysztof Kurowski
Cezary Mazurek
Maciej Stroinski
Keywords: Regional Healthcare Networks; Virtualization; Electronic Patient Records; eHealth; Resource Management
Abstract:
In the paper we introduce and discuss the concept of an architecture of a patient-centered eHealth ecosystem. It is composed of three layers which were developed around three autonomic types of platforms of services in eHealth. The first platform is a corporate eHealth network which is based on the concept of the LivingLab system introduced earlier. This level is concerned with specialized reference centers and is a natural place for a broad range of advanced tools and eHealth infrastructures. The next level is developed basing on the concept of regional healthcare networks. Some examples of such networks or projects in Poland are mentioned. Regional Healthcare Networks are the most natural environments which bring together all the actors involved in patients’ healthcare. The third level in the proposed architecture is related to the family (or individual) eHealth platforms. The environment of this kind is natural for storing, management of and access to personal health records. The concept of a proposed architecture was used to discuss its three main paradigms and their importance for the future global eHealth ecosystem. The presented approach assumes the evolutionary model which enables the virtualization on every level, new generation communication protocols between corresponding networks, and finally a smart electronic health record.
Pages: 51 to 58
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011
Publication date: February 23, 2011
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4359
ISBN: 978-1-61208-119-9
Location: Gosier, Guadeloupe, France
Dates: from February 23, 2011 to February 28, 2011