INTRANET HEALTH CLINIC - A web-based interactive communication environmentfor the continuation in health care

INTRANET HEALTH CLINIC is a two-year project supported by the European Comm ission (Telematics Applications Programme of DGXIII - Health Care Sector). Its goal is to cover the gaps experienced in the continuation and coordinat ion of care all the way from the initial delivery of primary health care up to the delivery of highly specialized, tertiary health services and vice v ersa, where transfer of any type of relevant health data is needed, namely, among health care professionals and between them and the patients. Differe nt health-related application domains are addressed covering the needs of t reating chronic patients with frequent acute periods of exacerbation, chron ic and even terminal patients with less "acute" aspects, and in principle h ealthy persons with an acute need of intensive information during pregnancy . In this paper, the proposed solution concerning the specification of a co mmon shell and the access procedures to the service will be presented. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.