Interoperability of open source medical record systems

Year book of Medical …, 2007

Objectives: This paper reflects on the role of open source in health information system interoperability. Open source is a driving force in computer science research and the development of information systems. It facilitates the sharing of information and ideas, enables evolutionary development and open collaborative testing of code, and broadens the adoption of interoperability standards. In health care, information systems have been developed largely ad hoc following proprietary specifications and customized design. However, the wide deployment of integrated services such as Electronic Health Records (EHRs) over regional health information networks (RHINs) relies on interoperability of the underlying information systems and medical devices. Methods: This reflection is built on the experiences of the PICNIC project that developed shared software infrastructure components in open source for RHINs and the OpenECG network that offers open source components to lower the implementation cost of interoperability standards such as SCP-ECG, in electrocardiography. Results: Open source components implementing standards and a community providing feedback from real-world use are key enablers of health care information system interoperability.

Sigmod Record, 1993

Clinical care genemtes an immense amount of patient abta that has been archived and manipulated by computerbased information systems. Such computer-based medical record systems improved the accessibi@ of clinical information and made several studies of such information possible. Unfortunately, the care provider's task of retrieving, integmting, and interpreting only those portions of the patient's reconi that are relevant to a specific clinictdproblem is actually becoming increasingly d~~cult. This d~ficu~can be attributedprimarily to the large variety of minimum alzta sets, the heterogeneous formats used to store the ohta, the heterogeneous aiata access methods andprocedures, the varying gmnuhzrity of access to data, the different rigid views of the &ta, and the lack of inter-operability among the information repositories of such data sets. Recognizing the aforementioned issues, we are engaged in a project to buihl a multi-a%ztabaseenvironment tailored for the interopembility of medical information systems. The main building blocks of such a system area multidisciplinary minimum data set and a catalogue for the suppoti of interopembili~and customization functions. In this paper, we report on the design approach used and describe the general architecture of the system. I.

Wiener klinische Wochenschrift, 2010

The Middle European Journal of Medicine E-health integration and interoperability based on open-source information technology E-health integration and interoperability wkw 9-10/2010 © Springer-Verlag E-health integration and interoperability

Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Health Informatics and Bioinformatics, 2011

Medical information systems evolve constantly. This paper shows a coherent architectural framework that allows the development of interoperable medical information systems in measure or these systems evolve. This architecture is based on agent, ontology and Peer to Peer. The proposed architecture is meant to include all the concepts necessary to perform all activities related to medical information system. This work indicates how to attain the organizational interoperability.

Due to the Health Information Technology for Econom ic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH), the US medical industry has been given a directive to tran sition to electronic health records. Electronic Hea lth Records will enhance efficiency and quality of pati ent care. In this paper, open-source health informa tion systems are surveyed.These systems include electron ic medical records, electronic health records and personal health record systems. Their functionality , implementation technologies used, and security features are discussed.

2008

The interoperability between various standards and the exchange of data amongst different resources constitutes an important issue in Health Care Applications. Standards allow institutes to transmit clinical data and images from the electronic patient folder to different hospital sites, requiring these elements for diagnosis, medical studies and treatment. Medical image examination is a subset of the medical image folder that includes a request, images, prescription, reports of specimen analysis, and other elements.

16th International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology, 2014

Efficient management of medical multimedia data are important research issues in e-Health systems. Proper management of data facilitates efficient data sharing and querying. In this paper, we propose such an approach for data interoperability among heterogeneous data sources. The approach provides a mechanism for sharing data among the sources by overcoming the heterogeneity issues. The framework has been tested with various user queries and the accuracy of the query results evaluated by means of precision and recall methods.

2021 Design of Medical Devices Conference, 2020

Despite the strong consensus behind the need for an interoperable Healthcare Information System (HIS), the universal acceptance of a standard HIS framework has advanced very little and is yet to become a market reality. In an effort to advance this endeavor, this work provides a systematic comparison regarding two of the most relevant HIS frameworks recently proposed: The Integrated Clinical Environment (ICE) and the Healthcare Industry 4.0 Framework. The paper analyzes their differences and similarities and proposes a minimum set of requirements for prospective interoperable HIS architectures compliant with the Industry 4.0 design principles, goal-setting pillars, as well as support for closed-loop physiological systems. Finally, the paper discusses future works in the field.

All Things Ancient Egypt: An Encyclopedia of the Ancient Egyptian World. Volume 1 (ABC-CLIO, Inc)., 2019