Virtual health platform for medical tourism purposes

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2008:137:269-74.

Abstract

This paper introduces an overview of the Virtual Health Platform (VHP), an alternative approach to create a functional PHR system in a medical tourism environment. The proposed platform has been designed in order to be integrated with EHR infrastructures and in this way it expects to be useful and more advantageous to the patient or tourist. Use cases of the VHP and its potential benefits summarize the analysis.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Humans
  • International Cooperation*
  • Medical Record Linkage* / standards
  • Medical Records Systems, Computerized* / standards
  • Reference Standards
  • Spain
  • Telemedicine / organization & administration*
  • Travel*
  • User-Computer Interface*
  • Vocabulary, Controlled