title: The standard data model approach to patient record transfer.
abstract: This paper develops an approach to electronic data exchange of patient records from Ambulatory Encounter Systems (AESs). This approach assumes that the AES is based upon a standard data model. The data modeling standard used here is IDEFIX for Entity/Relationship (E/R) modeling. Each site that uses a relational database implementation of this standard data model (or a subset of it) can exchange very detailed patient data with other such sites using industry standard tools and without excessive programming efforts. This design is detailed below for a demonstration project between the research-oriented geriatric clinic at the Baltimore Veterans Affairs Medical Center (BVAMC) and the Laboratory for Healthcare Informatics (LHI) at the University of Maryland.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory for Healthcare Informatics, University of Maryland, UMBC.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Canfield
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Silva
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Petrucci
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000592:standards*; D003626:Data Display; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D008396:Maryland; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000592:standards*; D014584:User-Computer Interface