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An integrated e-service model for electronic medical records

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In this paper, we discuss the critical issues with the implementation of electronic medical records and argue that the emerging e-services will not fully resolve the issues if they do not work together. To meet the challenge, we propose an integrated e-service model consisting of both process- and data-oriented grids that glue together distributed electronic medical services, records, and application services. We also provide an implementation architecture and prototype that validates the model.

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  1. College of Business Administration, University of Akron, Akron, OH, 44325-4801, USA

    Liping Liu

  2. Iowa State University, 3226 Gerdin Building, Ames, IA, 50011, USA

    Dan Zhu

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Data objects in the data grid prototype (created by graduate students Christina Buckwell and Michael Buckwell)

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Evaluative functions in the prototype functional grid (dotted arrow for include, dotted arrow with <<E>> for extend, and other symbols follow the standard UML, created by graduate students Christina Buckwell and Michael Buckwell)

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Liu, L., Zhu, D. An integrated e-service model for electronic medical records. Inf Syst E-Bus Manage 11, 161–183 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10257-012-0188-6

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