Visualization of CDA laboratory reports and long term trends as a possible EHR application for patients and physicians

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2014:198:93-100.

Abstract

To increase the patient's acceptance of electronic health records and understanding for their laboratory findings a web application was developed which presents all parameters and possible deviations of standard values in a clear way and visualizes the time based trend of all recorded parameters graphically. Documents corresponding to the Clinical document architecture (CDA) R2 laboratory reports standard and a rapid prototyping framework called Groovy on Grails were used. This work shows, that it is possible to create a useful, standards based tool for patients and physicians with comparatively few resources - an application that could be in similar form a part of an electronic Health Record (EHR) system like the Austrian electronic Health Record (ELGA).

MeSH terms

  • Austria
  • Clinical Laboratory Information Systems / classification*
  • Clinical Laboratory Techniques / classification*
  • Data Mining / methods
  • Electronic Health Records / classification*
  • Health Records, Personal*
  • Internet
  • Longitudinal Studies
  • Meaningful Use*
  • Medical Record Linkage / methods
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Patient Participation / methods*
  • Physicians
  • Software
  • Systems Integration
  • User-Computer Interface*