Biomedical subjects

M Tsiknakis

Publications and source records attributed to M Tsiknakis.

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PubMed1997

Virtual workspaces in I2Cnet.

The objective of I2Cnet (Image Indexing by Content network) is to provide network-transparent content-based access to medical image archives as an Internet/intranet value-added service. Through a typical web browser, healthcare professionals interact with image collections, browse images similar to a query image, compare these images to images from other collections, and contribute their own images or comments. Specific I2Cnet services available on the World Wide Web (WWW) include image processing and feature extraction, content- and annotation-based search for images and image-related information, and authoring of annotations and image descriptions. Virtual workspaces provide the necessary mechanisms to support user sessions in I2Cnet, providing for service interoperability, persistence, and user interaction. In the course of a user session, which begins with a workspace log-in and ends explicitly with a workspace log-out or implicitly by exiting the browser, virtual workspaces maintain the common context.

Computer Communication Networks↗

PubMed1997

Functional and control integration of an ICU, LIS and PACS information system.

The need for collaboration and data sharing among systems dedicated to individual functional areas and user groups has initiated major efforts towards the development of an integrated hospital information system. Major issues in the development of any integrated architecture that incorporates autonomous departmental systems include the development of commonly accepted interaction mechanisms, standardisation, the structure of the computerised patient record, its extensibility, as well as limitations multimedia data impose. This paper presents work done within project IHIS, a nationally funded project for the development of an integrated hospital information system that provides ICU staff with access to both the ICU assisting laboratory information system's data as well as radiological multimedia data.

Clinical Laboratory Information Systems↗

PubMed1997

Pre-hospital health emergency management as an integrated service of the Regional Health Telematics Network of Crete.

In this paper, a Pre-hospital Health Emergency Management System (PHEMS) is presented, which is being developed on the basis of a common reference architecture that has been defined at a European level by partners from ten EU member states in the course of the ongoing HECTOR project. The PHEMS, which is implemented as an autonomous system, will be integrated as an added-value service into the Regional Health Telematics Network of Crete. The PHEMS architecture is based on a 'perception-cognition-action' paradigm.

Expert Systems↗

PubMed1996

Technological advances in teleradiology.

Teleradiology consists of a set of added-value telematic services, implemented over an advanced telecommunications infrastructure and supported by different information technologies and related applications. The main goal of teleradiology is to provide different levels of support for remote diagnostic imaging procedures. This paper considers technological advances in this important area, including a discussion of the various added-value telematic services, applications supporting these services, and the required information technology and telecommunications infrastructure. Teleradiology is also considered in the general context of an integrated regional health telematics network, emphasizing its role and its interaction with other information and networking services.

Computer Communication Networks↗

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A framework for the integration of distributed autonomous healthcare information systems.

This paper presents a domain-specific framework for the integration of geographically distributed heterogeneous autonomous healthcare information systems. Integration is seen and understood in terms of access to information resources, and in terms of content, structure, and visualization of patient record segments, with the goal of creating a virtual patient record at the medical workstations. The proposed approach covers integration aspects related to presentation, control, data, and function. The architecture and the components of the framework are based on the newly introduced Patient Meta-Record (PMR) concept, but also make use of existing or emerging standards for distributed object-oriented computing and information presentation. At the application and middle-ware layers of the presented healthcare information systems architecture, the PMR concept enhances or enables services for data mediation, distributed directory access, and workflow management. At the bitways layer, high performance networks provide a fast medium, which is indispensable for medical image distribution, collaborative work, hypermedia library applications, and teleconsultation.

Computer Communication Networks↗