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Web-enabling an Integrated Health Informatics System

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Potential users of Health Information Systems include General Practioners, Pharmacists, Hospital Staff, Community Nurses and patients. Ideally an infrastructure for such a system will support the integration of data and processing as well as a diverse range of user interface technologies and devices. We describe a prototype system that uses a range of current Java-based object-oriented technologies to achieve this, including CORBA, XML, Jini, Enterprise Java Beans, and Java Server Pages (for both HTML and WML). We present an architecture for this system, key parts of its object-oriented design, examples of some of its user interfaces, report on our experiences building and evaluating this system. We identify strengths and weaknesses with these technologies we hope will be useful for others considering adding a range of web-and mobile-interfaces to enterprise systems.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand

    Angel Petrovski & John Grundy

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Calgary, Canada

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  2. School of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics, South Bank University, 103 Borough Road, London, UK

    Shushma Patel

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Petrovski, A., Grundy, J. (2001). Web-enabling an Integrated Health Informatics System. In: Wang, X., Johnston, R., Patel, S. (eds) OOIS 2001. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0719-4_49

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