Virtual medical record implementation for enhancing clinical decision support

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2012:180:118-22.

Abstract

Development of clinical decision support systems (CDS) is a process which highly depends on the local databases, this resulting in low interoperability. To increase the interoperability of CDS a standard representation of clinical information is needed. The paper suggests a CDS architecture which integrates several HL7 standards and the new vMR (virtual Medical Record). The clinical information for the CDS systems (the vMR) is represented with Topic Maps technology. Beside the implementation of the vMR, the architecture integrates: a Data Manager, an interface, a decision making system (based on Egadss), a retrieving data module. Conclusions are issued.

MeSH terms

  • Data Mining / standards*
  • Decision Support Systems, Management / standards*
  • Electronic Health Records / standards*
  • Health Level Seven*
  • Health Records, Personal*
  • Medical Record Linkage / standards
  • Romania
  • User-Computer Interface*