Interoperable electronic health records (EHR) have the capacity to deliver health care at optimal costs and quality in the United States, but current private and public initiatives have delayed nationwide implementation by failing to overcome several obstacles. These obstacles include:...

This paper describes the design, development and testing of a pre-hospital documentation and patient monitoring application called iRevive. The application utilizes a sensor gateway and data mediator to enable semantic interoperability with a wide variety of medical devices and applications....

The healthcare industry is being impacted by advances in information technology in four major ways: first, a broad spectrum of tasks that were previously done manually can now be done by computers faster, better, and at lower costs; second, some tasks can be outsourced to other countries using...