Solving the interoperability challenge of a distributed complex patient guidance system: A data integrator based on HL7's Virtual Medical Record standard

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 587-599

  Marcos, Carlos ^a   González Ferrer, Arturo ^b   Peleg, Mor ^b   Cavero, Carlos ^a  

^a Atos Research and Innovation   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Clinical Decision Support Systems; Electronic Health Records; Interoperability; Standards; Virtual Medical Record

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; CONSUMER; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; ELECTRONIC PATIENT RECORD; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY; PATIENT GUIDANCE; PATIENT INFORMATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SEMANTICS; COMPUTER NETWORK; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH LEVEL 7; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STANDARDS;

COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HEALTH LEVEL SEVEN; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84940397312     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocv003     Document Type: Article

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