The HL7 SGML/XML Special Interest Group is developing the HL7 Document Patient Record Architecture. This draft proposal strives to create a common data architecture for the interoperability of healthcare documents. Key components are that it is under the umbrella of HL7 standards, it is specified in Extensible Markup Language, the semantics are drawn from the HL7 Reference Information Model, an...

The enormous set of health and wellbeing data sources, as well as the diversity of the data, calls for an effective, time-aware integration paradigm that aids at the manipulation of the information by experts as a whole and not as individual pieces of knowledge. In this paper, we present the Health Service Bus, a service-based platform built on top of the Enterprise Service Bus architecture. Tr...

Large-scale data integration efforts to support clinical and biologic research are greatly facilitated by the adoption of standards for the representation and exchange of data. As part of a larger project to design the necessary architecture for multi-institutional sharing of disparate biomedical data, we explored the potential of the HL7 Reference Information Model (RIM) for representing the d...

A number of family history applications are in use by health care professionals (e.g., CAGENE, Progeny, Partners Health care Family History Program) as well as by patients (e.g., the US Surgeon General’s Family History Program). Each has its own proprietary data format for pedigree drawing and for the maintenance of family history health information. Interoperability between applications is ess...

Many terminologies exist for the form of drugs--i.e. tablets, capsules, sprays, suppositories, etc. However, they have surprisingly different content. To communicate medication messages effectively, a mechanism is needed to translate between these existing terminologies. An ontological approach, based on techniques developed by OpenGALEN, has been used to build a drug form terminology for HL7 v...

Given that health is so relevant for global productivity and competitiveness, and that the Information and Communications Technology (ICTs) play an important role in all of the productivity factors, this work makes use of the ICTs in health matters proposing the to use a WiFi oximeter. This article describes the operating principles of a Pulse Oximeter (PO) which is an opto-electronic non-invas...

JAMI (Java-based Agglutination of Medical Information) is designed as a framework for integrating heterogeneous information systems used in healthcare related institutions. It is one of the implementations under the W3-EMRS project 1 aimed at using the World Wide Web (Web) to unify different hospital information systems. JAMI inherited several design decisions from the first W3-EMRS implementat...

Given that health is so relevant for global productivity and competitiveness, and that the ICTs play an important role in all of the productivity factors, this work makes use of the ICTs in health matters proposing the to use a WiFi oximeter. This article describes the operating principles of a Pulse Oximeter (PO) which is an opto-electronic non-invasive medical instrument capable of measuring ...

GELLO is a purpose-specific, object-oriented (OO) query and expression language. GELLO is the result of a concerted effort of the Decision Systems Group (DSG) working with the HL7 Clinical Decision Support Technical Committee (CDSTC) to provide the HL7 community with a common format for data encoding and manipulation. GELLO will soon be submitted for ballot to the HL7 CDSTC for consideration as...

Correspondence to: Renata Konrad, PhD School of Business, Worcester Polytechnic Institute 100 Institute Rd, Worcester, MA 01609 United States E-mail: [email protected] Applied Clinical Informatics 2013; 4: 126–143 DOI: 10.4338/ACI-2012-06-RA-0026 received: June 27, 2012 accepted: January 10, 2013 published: March 20, 2013 Citation: Konrad R, Tulu B, Lawley M. Monitoring adherence to evidence base...