IT-Standards and Standardization Approaches Iin Healthcare

E-health basically comprises health services and informationdelivered or enhanced through the Internetand related technologies (Eysenbach, 2001). The futurehealthcare system and its services, enabling e-health, arebased on the communication between all informationsystems of all participants of an integrated treatment.Connecting the elements of each healthcare system(general practitioners, hospitals, health insurance companies,pharmacies, and so on)—even across nationalboarders—is an important issue for information systemsresearch in healthcare.[...]