Developing a general practice medical workstation: the integration aspect

ISAAC (Integrated System Architecture for Advanced Primary Care) is a project aiming at developing information technology and telematic support in the specific field of General Practice--and more broadly in the Primary Health Care sector--within the health care systems of different European Countries. The project aims at improving the work of the General Practitioners through the development of a useful and usable medical workstation for day-to-day patient care. Moreover ISAAC has the goal of prototyping an integration architecture for the improvement of the communications between the ISAAC workstation and heterogeneous application environments, namely other components of the health care system. This paper deals with a general description of the design along with a discussion of the adopted approach to fulfill the integration requirements.