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The experiences resulting from the development and extensive trials in BERMED of the open distributed management platform and the integrated medical application have shown the limits of existing approaches to integration, and have shown which obstacles must be overcome before real progress can be made. Most of these obstacles would, at first sight, appear to be trivial. The required technology often exists. The barriers are not only on a technical level. Commercial interests have in the past ensured that proprietary subsystems (particularly imaging modalities) remain closed. In addition, many barriers that affect the introduction and success of computer support can be on a sociological or organizational level. Although these issues must be addressed, they remain outside the scope of this chapter. The experiences in BERMED and the identification of the certain obstacles has led to the definition of a project to provide an infrastructure for the future medical workstation. Certain of these barriers can only be overcome through a concerted industry wide collaboration. The scope of the planned project is detailed in a later chapter (“A Support Platform for Medical Workstations”).
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