The Washington Heights-Inwood Community Health Management Information System (WHICHIS) at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center (CPMC) provides 15 community physician practices with seamless networking to the CPMC Wide-Area Network. The costs and benefits of the project were evaluated. Installation costs, including hardware, office management software, cabling, network routers, ISDN connecti...

introduction: information management system is a formal approach to collect the necessary information in its due time for managers to facilitate decision-making, planning and management. medical records system which is closely associated with pieces of information and their true value can play an important role in health care organizations. the main objective of this study is to compare informa...

This work is part of the WEICOT project whose main aim is to model and design a workflow environment in order to help the organization and realization of cooperative loosely structured office tasks. In order to supply the necessary features of this kind of office tasks, WEICOT extends actual Workflow Management Systems by integrating cooperation aspects and temporal organization. We present her...

The media and TV world faces new challenges such as the introduction of digital and interactive TV. In order to cope with the complexity of these new services, a well-structured back office is of prime importance. Today, efficient management of content is hampered by the proprietary formats used in the different software applications that have been developed by various vendors. Moreover, the la...