Poulymenopoulou M, Vassilacopoulos G
Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus, 80, Karaoli Dimitriou STR, Piraeus 185 34, Greece.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2003;95:322-7.
Emergency healthcare delivery involves a variety of activities performed from the time of a call to the ambulance service till the time of patient's disposal from the emergency department of a hospital. As these activities are performed in at least two organizations (i.e. ambulance service and hospital) and they are interrelated to form inter-organizational healthcare processes, collaboration and coordination become a vital issue for patients and for emergency healthcare service performance. Web-based workflow systems in conjunction with web services present a new way for service-oriented integration (SOI) of disparate systems and for developing distributed applications within and between organizations. Thus, through process automation and the use of web services ambulance service and hospital emergency departments can automate their operations by making information available where and when needed and by providing an infrastructure for the integration of pre-hospital and in-hospital emergency healthcare. A prototype implementation of this approach is presented in this paper.
紧急医疗服务涉及从呼叫救护车服务之时起直至患者从医院急诊科转出期间所开展的各种活动。由于这些活动至少在两个组织（即救护车服务机构和医院）中进行，且它们相互关联形成组织间医疗流程，因此协作与协调对于患者以及紧急医疗服务绩效而言成为至关重要的问题。基于网络的工作流系统与网络服务相结合，为不同系统的面向服务集成（SOI）以及在组织内部和组织之间开发分布式应用程序提供了一种新方法。因此，通过流程自动化和网络服务的使用，救护车服务机构和医院急诊科能够通过在需要的地点和时间提供信息，并通过提供用于整合院前和院内紧急医疗服务的基础设施来实现其运营自动化。本文展示了该方法的一个原型实现。
