Title: Networkcentric healthcare operations: the telecommunications structure

Authors: Dag Von Lubitz, Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Gennady Yanovsky

Addresses: MedSMART, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI 48904; HH and GA Dow College of Health Professions, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI 48804, USA. ' Stuart Graduate School of Business, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL 60661, USA. ' St. Petersburg State University of Telecommunications, St. Petersburg, Russia

Abstract: Healthcare globally is failing to meet its objectives of delivering appropriate medical attention to patients. We suggest that by adopting a networkcentric approach healthcare operations and delivery will be dramatically enhanced with the ultimate beneficiary being the patient. Underlying the networkcentric doctrine of healthcare is the use of IC2T. As discussed in the paper, all the essential network and telecommunication components already exist. We must now focus on how to combine them so that network centric healthcare can in fact become a reality.

Keywords: healthcare management; healthcare operations; global healthcare; e-health; networkcentric healthcare; telecommunications; IC2T; wireless communications; internet; mobile communications; networking; information technology; medical information systems.

DOI: 10.1504/IJNVO.2006.008785

International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations, 2006 Vol.3 No.1, pp.60 - 85

Published online: 24 Jan 2006 *

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