Management of a Pandemic Based on an openEHR approach

Daniela Oliveira; Rui Miranda; Nuno Abreu; Pedro Leuschner; António Abelha; Manuel Santos; José Machado

doi:10.1016/j.procs.2020.10.072

Management of a Pandemic Based on an openEHR approach

Procedia Comput Sci. 2020:177:522-527. doi: 10.1016/j.procs.2020.10.072. Epub 2020 Nov 11.

Authors

Daniela Oliveira¹, Rui Miranda², Nuno Abreu², Pedro Leuschner², António Abelha¹, Manuel Santos¹, José Machado¹

Affiliations

¹ Algoritmi Research Center, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.
² University Hospital Center of Porto, Porto, Portugal.

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has collapsed several national health systems, due to the lack of healthcare professionals and exhaustion of those employed, as well as the lack of interoperability and capacity to restructure their informatic systems. Therefore, the restructuring of institutions at all levels is essential, mainly at the level of their Information Systems. When the COVID-19 pandemic had spread to Portugal in March 2020, with a breakout on the northern region, the Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Porto (CHUP) healthcare institution had felt the need to develop and integrate a new approach based on the openEHR standard to interoperate with the institution's existing information systems, with the aim of responding quickly to the pandemic's evolution.

Keywords: COVID-19; Electronic Health Record; Healthcare Information Systems; Interoperability; openEHR.