Achieving electronic healthcare record (ehr) interoperability across healthcare information systems

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2008
Kılıç, Özgür
Providing an interoperability infrastructure for Electronic Healthcare Records (EHRs) is on the agenda of many national and regional eHealth initiatives. Two important integration profiles have been specified for this purpose: the "IHE Cross-enterprise Document Sharing (XDS)" and the "IHE Cross Community Access (XCA)". XDS describes how to share EHRs in a community of healthcare enterprises and XCA describes how EHRs are shared across communities. However, currently no solution addresses some of the important challenges of cross community exchange environments. The first challenge is scalability. If every community joining the network needs to connect to every other community, this solution will not scale. Furthermore, each community may use a different coding vocabulary for the same metadata attribute in which case the target community cannot interpret the query involving such an attribute. Another important challenge is that each community has a different patient identifier domain. Querying for the patient identifiers in another community using patient demographic data may create patient privacy concerns. Yet another challenge in cross community EHR access is the EHR interoperability since the communities may be using different EHR content standards.

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Ö. Kılıç, “Achieving electronic healthcare record (ehr) interoperability across healthcare information systems,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2008.