title: Analysis of EHRs for research, quality management and health politics.
abstract: Lifelong electronic health records can supply valuable information for research, quality management and health politics in addition to supporting treatment of patients. Based on experiences with scientific data analysis in a university hospital environment, requirements on cross-institutional analysis of electronic health records in a healthcare system are discussed. The concept of archetypes can play a key role in this context. Archetypes can be utilized in data analysis for visualization, semantic linkage and finally for standardized data transfer.
authors.affiliation: Section of Medical Information and Retrieval Systems, Core Unit for Medical Statistics, and Informatics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. walter.gall@meduniwien.ac.at
authors.forename: Walter
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Gall
authors.forename: Wilfried
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Grossmann
authors.forename: Georg
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Duftschmid
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wrba
authors.forename: Wolfgang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Dorda
mesh_terms: D001317:Austria; D003628:Database Management Systems / Q000458:organization & administration; D006291:Health Policy; D006751:Hospital Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D008498:Medical Record Linkage; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012106:Research; D018511:Systems Integration; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000458:organization & administration*