Medical Portals: Web-based Access to Medical Information

Public portals, such as Web search engines, have been available for a number of years and corporate portals that facilitate access to enterprise information within a company, normally through the Web, have been available for the last few years. Such portals are made up of “channels” of information and the purpose of these portals is to provide an interface that presents an organized view of the data to which the user has access, i.e., a straight forward means of access to this data. Both public and corporate portals provide access to potentially vast amounts of complex, distributed information through a Web browser. The infrastructures are based on Web technologies and the common interface is the Web