Role of OpenEHR as an open source solution for the regional modelling of patient data in obstetrics

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 55, Issue , 2015, Pages 174-187

  Pahl, Christina ^a,b   Zare, Mojtaba ^b   Nilashi, Mehrbakhsh ^b   de Faria Borges, Marco Aurélio ^c   Weingaertner, Daniel ^d   Detschew, Vesselin ^a   Supriyanto, Eko ^b   Ibrahim, Othman ^b  

^a ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Archetypes; Demographic data; Dual model approach; Electronic health; Health record; Information system; Knowledge management; Semantic interoperability

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; HOSPITALS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; INTEROPERABILITY; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MANAGERS; OBSTETRICS; OPEN DATA; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; POPULATION STATISTICS; SEMANTICS;

ARCHETYPES; DEMOGRAPHIC DATA; DUAL MODEL; ELECTRONIC HEALTH; HEALTH RECORDS; SEMANTIC INTEROPERABILITY;

DIGITAL STORAGE;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAZIL; CONSUMER; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE BASE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; OBSTETRICS; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; SEMANTICS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; CONTROLLED VOCABULARY; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; EUROPE; FEMALE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL RECORD; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; SOFTWARE;

ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; OBSTETRICS; PATIENT-SPECIFIC MODELING; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 84930734088     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2015.04.004     Document Type: Article

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