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...

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...

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...

Service oriented device architecture (SODA) is a promising approach for enabling a continuous IT support of medical processes in hospitals. However, there is a lack of specific design patterns for realizing the concept in an effective and efficient way. This paper addresses this research gap by...

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...

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...

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...

intra-organizational communication and media frictions complicate the continuous provision ofinformation according to the principle of information logistics. Based on extensive literaturereview, we present the vision of seamless healthcare with horizontally and vertically integratedhealthcare...

Personal health records (PHR) is a technology for managing the information playing field in healthcare. With multiple vendors competing on this relatively new market, an evaluation framework for end-user feature comparison can provide a foundation for system adoption decisions. Also it can serve...