Telematics in Medicine: A Network Infrastructure to Optimize Processes in Cardiology and Heart Surgery

Abbreviations

ATM asynchronous transfer mode

DICOM digital imaging and communications in medicine

HIS hospital information system

HL7 health level seven

ISDN integrated services digital network

IPsec secure internet protocol

LOINC logical observation identifiers names and codes

PDF portable document format

QIMS quality and information management system

VPN virtual private network

SSL secure socket layer

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1 Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) is a comprehensive set of standards for handling, storing, printing and transmitting information in medical imaging.

2 HL7 = Health Level Seven is one of several American National Standards Institute (ANSI)-accredited Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs) operating in the healthcare arena. Most SDOs produce standards for a particular healthcare domain.

3 DSL is a technology that provides digital data transmission over the wires of a local telephone network, which provides high bandwith by low costs.

4 Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) is a network protocol which encodes data traffic into small fixed-sized (53 byte; 48 bytes of data and 5 bytes of header information) cells instead of variable sized frames as in packet-switched networks (such as the Internet Protocol or Ethernet). It is a connection-oriented technology in which a connection is established between the two endpoints before the actual data exchange begins.

5 VPN = A virtual private network (VPN) is a private communications network used within one or by several companies to communicate over a public network (e. g. the internet) via standard (often insecure) protocols.

6 Secure Socket Layer (SSL) is a cryptographic protocol which provides secure communications on the Internet for such things as e-mail, internet faxing, data transfer to/from online poker clients, and so forth.