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Recently published in Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 
by IOS Press:

OPEN SYSTEMS IN MEDICINE

Edited by: E. Fleck
255 pp., hard cover
ISBN: 90 5199 123 1
Volume 8
Price: NLG 210/GBP 78/DM 188/US$ 117

Aiming to improve quality in health care and diagnoses the book discusses 
information processing and communication in medicine and presents 
a new approach. By object-oriented analysis, modelling and design 
the approach enables an evolutionary development according to the 
needs of the medical environment. Following this approach medical 
applications are realised using a heterogeneous distributed information 
management system. This system provides integration and communication 
of multimedia information for medical services. Concepts, architectures 
and techniques for realisation are introduced. As a main topic a medical 
patient record is implemented through co-ordination of medical information 
residing at different sites and systems. In addition image processing 
and computer graphics as well as knowledge-based applications are 
studied. The project is undertaken in Berlin by the German Heart Institute, 
the University Hospital Rudolf Virchow, the Technical University of 
Berlin and the Telekom broadband communication project BERKOM.

Contents:

Data and Information Processing in Medicine Need for Improved Quality 
in Health Care and Medical Diagnoses, E. Fleck; Principles of 
Open Distributed Processing in Medicine - The Berlin Approach, B. 
Mahr; Medical Information Processing - The BAIK Model, W. Giere; Existing 
and Future Communication Techniques to Open Information Processing, 
J. Kanzow; Recen Developments in Medical Information Processing, E. 
Frantz; The BERMED Application Environment, M. Ohly; Concepts and 
Architecture of an Open Distributed Heterogeneous Mangement System 
Information Management in Patient Care, M. Ohly; Realization of an 
Open Distributed Management System, M. Ohly; Computer-Supported 
Cooperative Work, M. Ohly; Multimedia Documents, L. Kleinholz;  Security 
and Protection, L. Kleinholz; Communication Infrastructures, 
J. Steffens; Image Processing Pipeline for Medical Applications, H. 
Oswald; Towards a Medical Terminology Infrastructure in an Open 
Clinical Application Environment, D. Paparoditis; Knowledge Based 
Support for Medical Diagnoses, H. Ogrodowcyk; Medical Application 
Based on an Open Distributed Heterogeneous Management Integrated Medical 
Application, L. Kleinholz; Evaluation of the Realized System - Obstacles 
to Further Integration, M. Ohly; Demonstrators for Telemedicine Services, 
J. Steffens and H. Oswald; Advanced Integrated Medical Query Systems 
Retrieval of Independent Information Sources in a Clinical Application 
Environment, D. Paparoditis; Digital Signal Processing, H. Oswald; 
A Support Platform for Medical Workstations, M. Ohly; Aspects on 
Future Developments of Integrated Medical Information Processing 
Integrated Clinical Information Mangement, M. Ohly; Integration 
of the Administrative Department, R. Petersen; Communication 
Technology, J. Steffens; Future Directions in Distributed Computing, 
M. Ohly.

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