Worldwide telemedicine services based on distributed multimedia electronic patient records by using the second generation Web server hyperwave.

• Main Authors: Quade, G., Novotny, J., Burde, B., May, F., Beck, L. E., Goldschmidt, A.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: American Medical Informatics Association 1999
• Subjects: Research Article; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2232750; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10566494

A distributed multimedia electronic patient record (EPR) is a central component of a medicine-telematics application that supports physicians working in rural areas of South America, and offers medical services to scientists in Antarctica. A Hyperwave server is used to maintain the patient record. As opposed to common web servers--and as a second generation web server--Hyperwave provides the capability of holding documents in a distributed web space without the problem of broken links. This enables physicians to browse through a patient's record by using a standard browser even if the patient's record is distributed over several servers. The patient record is basically implemented on the "Good European Health Record" (GEHR) architecture.