After the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become evident that efficient and secure interoperability of medical information is crucial for effective diagnoses and medical treatments. However, a significant challenge arises concerning the h...
16 May 2014
Interoperability in health information systems is increasingly a requirement rather than an option. Standards and technologies, such as multi-agent systems, have proven to be powerful tools in interoperability issues. In the last few years, the autho...
The perspectives of the Compounded Drug Preparation Information Exchange Expert Panel of the United States Pharmacopeia (CDPIE-EP) on the urgent need to create and maintain data standards to support the electronic transmission of an interoperable dat...
(1) Background: Clinical information modeling tools are software instruments designed to support the definition of semantic structures able to be implemented in health information systems. Based on the analysis of existing tools, this research develo...
The existing technologies, systems, or models in the hospital system, in certain aspects have, in terms of integrity, difficulties in carrying out an adequate, systematic, and automated record of patient data. To this end, the electronic health recor...
The Italian Electronic Health Record (called the FSE) is based on a federated architectural model and involves various types of health data and documents deriving from public and private health stakeholders. Clinical documents are stored in repositor...
Lack of standardization related to compounded drug preparations, especially in the transition of care situations, threatens patient safety by facilitating medication error. This paper outlines progress to-date from the United States Pharmacopeia (USP...
Medical imaging is currently being applied in artificial intelligence and big data technologies in data formats. In order for medical imaging collected from different institutions and systems to be used for artificial intelligence data, interoperabil...
A medical entity (hospital, nursing home, rest home, revalidation center, etc.) usually includes a multitude of information systems that allow for quick decision-making close to the medical sensors. The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is an area of...
Over the last few decades, research on e-Health applications and medical information systems has significantly grown over time due to the need to reinforce health applications’ governance and access potential as well as medical information syst...
In recent years, healthcare is evolving to meet the needs of a growing and ageing population. To support better and more reliable care, a comprehensive and up-to-date Personal Health Record (PHR) is essential. Ideally, the PHR should contain all heal...
Numerous gaps in the current medication use system impede complete transmission of electronically identifiable and standardized extemporaneous formulations as well as a uniform approach to medication therapy management (MTM) for paediatric patients....
The healthcare industry has been transitioning from paper-based medical records to electronic health records (EHRs) in most healthcare facilities. However, the current EHR frameworks face challenges in secure data storage, credibility, and management...
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the necessity for agile health services that enable reliable and secure information exchange, but achieving proper, private, and secure sharing of EMRs remains a challenge due to diverse data formats and fragment...
IoT has seen remarkable growth, particularly in healthcare, leading to the rise of IoMT. IoMT integrates medical devices for real-time data analysis and transmission but faces challenges in data security and interoperability. This research identifies...
With the digitization of healthcare, an immense amount of sensitive medical data are generated and shared between various healthcare stakeholders—however, traditional health data management mechanisms present interoperability, security, and pri...
The widespread fragmentation of patient information across heterogeneous systems and the lack of standardized integration mechanisms hinder efficient and comprehensive medical diagnostics. To address these limitations, this work presents an architect...
The rapid rise of virtual hospitals has created an urgent need for secure, interoperable, and patient-centered (PC) access to medical data across distributed healthcare environments. However, most existing hospital information systems and electronic...
Information sharing across medical institutions is restricted to information exchange between specific partners. The lifelong electronic health records (EHR) structure and content require standardization efforts. The existing standards such as openEH...
To implement new software functions and more flexible updates in the future as well as to provide cloud-based functionality, the service-oriented architecture (SOA) paradigm is increasingly being integrated into automotive electrical and electronic a...
Currently, the Taiwan Electronic Medical Record Exchange Center uses the Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) framework, which is based on the international medical standard. The CDA R2 standard, defined in 2005, is used for cross-institution retriev...
This paper examines the status of the development of national digital health information systems (HIS) in Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) member states. Data for research were collected using a questionnaire adapted from the questionnaire of...
A mass casualty incident may result in tens or hundreds of victims. Triage, being the procedure of classifying victims according to their medical emergency, and the unique identification of victims are equally crucial procedures for effectively manag...
The integration of blockchain technology into healthcare offers a robust solution to challenges in secure data sharing, privacy protection, and operational efficiency. Effective exchange of sensitive patient information among hospitals, clinics, insu...
The prevalence of cardiovascular implantable electronic devices with remote monitoring capabilities continues to grow, resulting in increased volume and complexity of biomedical data. These data can provide diagnostic information for timely intervent...
The acceleration of the digital transformation process imposed by the pandemic in all the countries of the European Union, and in all sectors, has given way to a revolution that up until a couple of years ago would have been impossible even to imagin...
This study investigated the potential of blockchain technology to transform Electronic Health Record (EHR) administration, integrity, and security. EHRs store vital health information such as medical history, diagnosis, prescriptions, and imaging fin...
The current healthcare sector is facing difficulty in satisfying the growing issues, expenses, and heavy regulation of quality treatment. Surely, electronic medical records (EMRs) and protected health information (PHI) are highly sensitive, personall...
The concept of MyData emerged as a paradigm shift in personal data management and the process of seeking to transform the current organization-centered system. MyData enables the utilization of one’s own personal information that is scattered among v...
The rapid advancements in technology have paved the way for innovative solutions in the healthcare domain, aiming to improve scalability and security while enhancing patient care. This abstract introduces a cutting-edge approach, leveraging blockchai...
The increasing volume of digital medical data offers substantial research opportunities, though its complete utilization is hindered by ongoing privacy and security obstacles. This proof-of-concept study explores and confirms the viability of using S...
Healthcare collaborative processes still encounter major challenges, particularly regarding the interoperability of heterogeneous information systems, the traceability of medical interventions, and the secure sharing of patient data under strict priv...
Pharmacovigilance approaches have conventionally focused on the use of epidemiological data to detect emergent adverse drug reactions (ADRs). Recent advances in the use and availability of real-world data have expanded opportunities to detect ADR sig...
Blockchain technology in the healthcare industry has potential to enable enhanced privacy, increased security, and an interoperable data record. Blockchain technology is being implemented in dental care systems to store and share medical information,...
Digital telecommunications have become the backbone of modern healthcare, transforming how patients and professionals interact, share information, and deliver treatment. The integration of telecommunications with medicine, biomedical engineering and...
Collecting patient’s medical data is essential for emergency care. Although hospital-tethered personal health records (PHRs) can provide accurate data, they are not available as electronic information when the hospital does not develop and supp...
The increasing use of electronic health records (EHRs) generates a vast amount of data, which can be leveraged for predictive modeling and improving patient outcomes. However, EHR data are typically mixtures of structured and unstructured data, which...
The forthcoming 6G will attempt to rewrite the communication networks’ perspective focusing on a shift in paradigm in the way technologies and services are conceived, integrated and used. In this viewpoint, the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) repre...
The issue of identity authentication for online medical services has been one of the key focuses of the healthcare industry in recent years. Most healthcare organizations use centralized identity management systems (IDMs), which not only limit the in...
This research study aims to examine the possibilities of Hyperledger Fabric (HLF) in the healthcare sector. The study addresses the gap in the knowledge base through developing customization techniques to enable the simplicity and efficacy of Electro...
The cross-institutional secondary use of medical data benefits from structured semantic annotation, which ideally enables the matching and merging of semantically related data items from different sources and sites. While numerous medical terminologi...
Personal health records (PHRs) have lots of benefits for things such as health surveillance, epidemiological surveillance, self-control, links to various services, public health and health management, and international surveillance. The implementatio...
Healthcare Information Systems (HISs) are essential for improving care quality, managing chronic diseases, and supporting clinical decision-making. Despite significant investments, HIS implementations often fail due to the complexity of healthcare en...
Personal health records (PHRs) are digital repositories that allow individuals to access, manage, and share their health information. By enabling patients to track their health over time and communicate effectively with healthcare providers, personal...
13 November 2013
Many studies have indicated that computing technology can enable off-site cardiologists to read patients’ electrocardiograph (ECG), echocardiography (ECHO), and relevant images via smart phones during pre-hospital, in-hospital, and post-hospital tel...
With the advances in the microfabrication of analogue front-end devices, and embedded and signal processing technology, it has now become possible to devise miniaturized health monitoring kits for non-invasive real time monitoring at any location. Th...
Thus far, emergency calls are answered by human operators who interview the calling person in order to obtain all relevant information. In the near future—based on the Internet of (Medical) Things (IoT, IoMT)—accidents, emergencies, or adverse health...
The recent COVID-19 pandemic has hit humanity very hard in ways rarely observed before. In this digitally connected world, the health informatics and investigation domains (both public and private) lack a robust framework to enable rapid investigatio...
In recent years and with the advancement of semantic technologies, shared and published online data have become necessary to improve research and development in all fields. While many datasets are publicly available in social and economic domains, mo...
In their joint effort against cancer, all involved parties within the German healthcare system are obligated to report diagnostics, treatments, progression, and follow-up information for tumor patients to the respective cancer registries. Given the f...
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