Title page; Foreword; NHAB Foreword; Foreword; Contents; Introduction; The PICNIC Story; PICNIC Architecture; PICNIC Technology; How to Use the PICNIC Results; Canada Health Infoway -- Towards a National Interoperable Electronic Health Record (EHR) Solution; The Story of MedCom; The openEHR Foundation; The National Programme for IT in England; Implementing Interoperable Secure Health Information Systems; Lessons Learned from PICNIC; Glossary of Terms; Author Index
Summary
Aim to make the European market for telematic healthcare services more cohesive and less fragmented, by developing a model for the preparation of the regional healthcare providers to implement the next generation of secure, user-friendly healthcare networks. It paves the way towards the development of regional healthcare networks