A Concept of a Patient-centered Healthcare System Based on the Virtualized Networking and Information Infrastructure
Artur Binczewski, Krzysztof Kurowski, Cezary Mazurek, Maciej Stroiński · International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine · 2011
In the paper we introduce and discuss the concept of an architecture of a patient-centered eHealth ecosy stem. It is composed of three layers which were developed around three autonomic types of platforms of services in eHealth . The first platform is a corporate eHealth network which is ba sed on the concept of the LivingLab system introduced earlier. This level is concerned with specialized reference centers and is a natural place for a broad range of advanced tools and eHeal th infrastructures. The next level is developed basing on the concept of regional healthcare networks. Some examples of such networks or projects in Poland are mentioned. Regional Healthcare Networks are the most natural environments which bring together all the actors involved in patients' healthcare. The third level in the proposed architecture is rel ated to the family (or individual) eHealth platforms. The envir onment of this kind is natural for storing, management of and access to personal health records. The concept of a proposed architecture was used to discuss its three main par adigms and their importance for the future global eHealth ecos ystem. The presented approach assumes the evolutionary model which enables the virtualization on every level, new gene ration communication protocols between corresponding networks, and finally a smart electronic health record.