Standardization of demographic service for a federated healthcare environment
I. Román*, L. Roa** and G. Madinabeitia*
*Group of Telematic Engineering, University of Seville, Spain
**Biomedical Engineering Group, University of Seville, Spain
Abstract:
Throughout everybody’s lifetime any person may have episodes of care provided by many health-care providers. This is mainly due to the increasingly specialisation of medicine practice and to the growth of population mobility, among other factors. On the other hand, new information and communication technologies (ICT) are being used in the healthcare tasks making these easier and more efficient. The aid of ICT is having a clear impact in the transition to the digital hospital being the management of multimedia clinical information systems an essential issue.
In this new scenario patient’s clinical information is distributed among several information systems, geographically dispersed. These are usually autonomous and heterogeneous systems, that were developed with different objectives and, consequently with different data models, platforms, standards and semantics. The interest is that they work in a collaborative environment so we can see this as a federated environment.
In order to collect the patient’s healthcare information distributed in all the federation (the Electronic Healthcare Record, EHR) a resolution of incompatibilities between the systems of the federation must be accomplished. These incompatibilities can be classified into three levels: semantic, functional and instance incompatibilities.
Tagged: data model, platform, semantic and standards ; posted on Saturday, June 4th, 2005 at 4:16 pmNo Comments »
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