In this paper we describe a generic model of a patient health portal, which is suitable to implement patient access to the evolving German healthcare telematics infrastructure. The portal uses the telematics as a communication infrastructure to ensure the concise and secure exchange of medical...

Clinical pathways describe treatment processes within a hospital. They can be used as process models, which can be controlled by implemented workflow models in information systems. This enables (semi-) automated processes, and they are therefore high potential for an improved quality management...

The electronic health card (EHC) is presently being introduced in Germany, however in a muchslower pace than originally anticipated and planned. For an evaluation of the applications of EHCa doctor´s practice of a dentist was chosen as reference practice. To analyze the direct effect of theEHC,...

The role of security management in the development and operation of information systems has a long tradition of research incomputer science, information systems and management science. Integrating the economic, organizational, and technicalaspects of information systems security analysis and...

This paper describes a single sign-on solution for the central management of health care provider’s smart cards in hospitals. The proposed approach which is expected to be an improvement over current methods is made possible through the introduction of a national healthcare telematics...

Service oriented device architecture (SODA) is a promising approach for overcoming interoperability issues and especially for extending the IT support of business processes to devices. It is based on the encapsulation of devices as services, and therefore on design principles of service oriented...

Germany is introducing a nation-wide health telematics infrastructure that enables various electronic health services (EHS). Little is known about the burdens and drivers for potential adoption of these innovations. Based on a quantitative study among German physicians participating in pilot...

In this paper, we provide a detailed overview of specific characteristics required to evaluate IS security approaches withregard to their applicability in the healthcare domain. The future of integrated treatment is enabled by e-health solutions thatcomprise health services and information...

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...

AbstractIn this paper we compare different approaches and show the need for systematic requirementsengineering for hybrid products beyond disciplinary boundaries. Hybrid products consist ofcombinations of hardware, software and service elements. The purpose of this paper is to report ona...