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Information Management in a Grid-Based E-Health Business Environment: A Technical-Business Analysis

Information Management in a Grid-Based E-Health Business Environment: A Technical-Business Analysis

Vassiliki Andronikou, Gabriel Sideras, Dimitrios Halkos, Michael Firopoulos, Theodora Varvarigou
Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 16
ISBN13: 9781605668901|ISBN10: 1605668907|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781616924591|EISBN13: 9781605668918
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-890-1.ch006
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Andronikou, Vassiliki, et al. "Information Management in a Grid-Based E-Health Business Environment: A Technical-Business Analysis." Infonomics for Distributed Business and Decision-Making Environments: Creating Information System Ecology, edited by Malgorzata Pankowska, IGI Global, 2010, pp. 81-96. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-890-1.ch006

APA

Andronikou, V., Sideras, G., Halkos, D., Firopoulos, M., & Varvarigou, T. (2010). Information Management in a Grid-Based E-Health Business Environment: A Technical-Business Analysis. In M. Pankowska (Ed.), Infonomics for Distributed Business and Decision-Making Environments: Creating Information System Ecology (pp. 81-96). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-890-1.ch006

Chicago

Andronikou, Vassiliki, et al. "Information Management in a Grid-Based E-Health Business Environment: A Technical-Business Analysis." In Infonomics for Distributed Business and Decision-Making Environments: Creating Information System Ecology, edited by Malgorzata Pankowska, 81-96. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2010. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-890-1.ch006

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Abstract

E-business today has moved focus to information sharing and integration across organisational boundaries in an effort to transform business processes throughout the value chain and standardize collaboration among communicating entities. Healthcare comprises a strongly collaborative distributed business environment in which information value plays a strategic role and informational privacy comprises a great concern. This new era in e-business, however, is followed by a series of issues that need to be addressed both at application and infrastructural level, such as information heterogeneity, system interoperability, security and privacy. The Grid as a technology enables sharing, selection, and aggregation of a wide variety of distributed resources comes to fill these gaps. In this chapter, the communication of information among healthcare organisations operating over a Grid infrastructure will be presented and analysed both from a technical and a business perspective.

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