Interoperability in eHealth Systems (Invited Tutorial)

Interoperability in eHealth Systems

Interoperability in eHealth systems is important for delivering quality healthcare and reducing healthcare costs. Some of the important use cases include coordinating the care of chronic patients by enabling the co-operation of many different eHealth systems such as Electronic Health Record Systems (EHRs), Personal Health Record Systems (PHRs) and wireless medical sensor devices; enabling secon...

Goals and Challenges for the Realization of a European wide eHealth Infrastructure

A number of Electronic Health Record (EHR) standards and frameworks have been developed to assist with the interoperability and integration of distributed EHR information. Ideally, all EHR systems would adopt common and systematized hierarchies of component names, use multi-lingual clinical coding systems with perfect cross-mappings and use identical reference models for measurements. However, ...

An Ontology for Regulating eHealth Interoperability in Developing African Countries

eHealth governance and regulation are necessary in low resource African countries to ensure effective and equitable use of health information technology and to realize national eHealth goals such as interoperability, adoption of standards and data integration. eHealth regulatory frameworks are under-developed in low resource settings, which hampers the progression towards coherent and effective...

On the design of an electronic health patient registration system for South Africa

ICT investments in South Africa’s public healthcare have not resulted in the efficiencies envisaged as health information systems lacks interoperability. The approval of the eHealth strategy in 2012, introduces a roadmap for hospital information systems interoperability, thus, increase return on investment in ICT spending and improve the collection and quality of health data. EHealth Foundation...

Data and Mined-Knowledge Interoperability in eHealth Systems