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The Electronic Health Record and its Contribution to Healthcare Information Systems Interoperability

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Jardim, Sandra V.B.·2013·Procedia Technology

Abstract

One of the main advantages of using computational systems in the health care activity comes from their ability to provide useful information for decision making to health professionals. Thus, their main purpose is to increment the quality and efficiency of healthcare delivery. In order to achieve these purposes, Health Information Systems must fulfill interoperability standards, quality, security, scalability, reliability and timeliness in data storage and processing terms. One of the main existing problems in this area is the fact that informatics applications do not share information, or share it in a very low level. When communication between different Health Information Systems exists, it is mainly achieved through proprietary integration solutions. In this paper is made a survey of the main advantages of Electronic Health Records and presented a proposal of some general guidelines for building them and promote the integration of different information resources.

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  • Data format incompatibility and the handling of big data introduce additional challenges to interoperability.

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    The Introduction describes data of different types and structures across heterogeneous systems and links that heterogeneity to weak interoperability. It also mentions large amounts of data, but does not identify handling big data as a separate interoperability challenge. (LLM, conf=0.82)

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Authors
Jardim, S. V. B.
Affiliations
Universidade Politécnica de Tomar (PT)
Corresponding author
Jardim, Sandra V.B.
Venue
Procedia Technology
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2013
Volume
9
Pages
940-948
ISSN
2212-0173 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2003373711
Cited by
72
References
25
Citations by year
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FWCI
4.04
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
Procedia Technology (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Electronic Health Records Systems
  • Health Sciences › Nursing › Issues, ethics and legal aspects › Nursing Diagnosis and Documentation
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Medical Coding and Health Information
Keywords
electronic health records, health information systems, interoperability, information sharing, health data integration, clinical decision support

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