Informationssysteme und Datenschutz im Krankenhaus

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The book provides a comprehensive overview of strategic information planning in hospitals, emphasizing complexity reduction through data integration. It begins with the formulation of design problems and the evolution of informatics architecture, leading to strategic conclusions. The hospital operation is framed as a sociotechnical system, detailing its goal system, performance areas, and processes. The morphology of computer-assisted hospital information and communication systems is explored, focusing on automation levels, substance, and system concept typologies, alongside recommendations for enhancing hospital information management. Legal aspects of patient data treatment are examined, including definitions, relevant laws, the challenges of data storage, and the legal prerequisites for processing patient data. Issues surrounding the distribution and allocation of patient data are discussed, highlighting the implications for data protection in the context of patient confidentiality. Concrete proposals for legally compliant design of distributed informatics architecture in hospital systems are presented, including the definition of formal problems and the Business Systems Planning method as a solution approach. A case study illustrates an object-oriented design of a reference model, followed by a critique of the method. The book concludes with a literature reference section and an appendix detailing task descriptions, defi