title: K-Box: automatic structuring and exchange of medical documents based on the clinical documentation architecture (CDA).
abstract: Sustainable health systems should understand information as a resource which also has to be managed efficiently. Today's electronic documentation is only the mandatory first step to automatic information exchange between hospitals, physician offices, pharmacies and other participants. The K-Box is a modular system which allows different monolithic information systems to be connected and integrated by using the clinical document architecture (CDA) as the standard document exchange format. A prototype K-Box has been implemented and a trial run is scheduled. The workflow selected for the trial produces discharge summaries in CDA format.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Informatics and Biomathematics, University Hospital, University of Muenster, Germany. doan@imfl.de
authors.forename: Minh H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Doan
authors.forename: Paul-Ludwig
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Lott
authors.forename: Marek
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Václavík
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ueckert
mesh_terms: D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D007256:Information Systems; D020407:Internet; D008498:Medical Record Linkage; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D012984:Software; D018511:Systems Integration