title: An electronic health record to support patients and institutions of the health care system.
abstract: The department of Medical Informatics of the University Hospital Münster and the Gesakon GmbH (an university offspring) initiated the cooperative development of an electronic health record (EHR) called "akteonline.de" in 2000. From 2001 onwards several clinics of the university hospital have already offered this EHR (within pilot projects) as an additional service to selected subsets of their patients. Based on the experiences of those pilot projects the system architecture and the basic data model underwent several evolutionary enhancements, e.g. implementations of electronic interfaces to other clinical systems (considering for example data interchange methods like the Clinical Document Architecture - standardized within the HL7 group - and also interfacing architectures of German GP systems, such as VCS and D2D). "akteonline.de" in its current structure supports patients as well as health care professionals and aims at providing a collaborative health information system which perfectly supports the clinical workflow even across institutional boundaries and including the patient himself. Since such an EHR needs to strictly fulfill high data security and data protection requirements, a complex authorization and access control component has been included. Furthermore the EHR data are encrypted within the database itself and during their transfer across the internet.
authors.affiliation: University Hospital of Muenster, Children's Oncology, Muenster, Germany. ueckert@uni-muenster.de
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Uckert
authors.forename: Marcel Lucas
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Müller
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bürkle
authors.forename: Hans-Ulrich
authors.initials: HU
authors.lastname: Prokosch
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