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...

Our analysis of seven companies from the German medical engineering industryrevealed that product-service-systems play a central role in value creation. Customer solutionsare highly individual and often consist of a medical product and corresponding servicesspanning the complete product life...

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...

Geräte sind ein wesentlicher Bestandteil medizinischer Behandlungsprozesse. Für eine optimaleIT-Unterstützung der Behandlung ist daher die Prozessintegration und die Interoperabilität dieserGeräte erforderlich. Der Ansatz der serviceorientierten Geräteintegration versucht, diesen...