title: A reference architecture for integrated EHR in Colombia.
abstract: The implementation of national EHR infrastructures has to start by a detailed definition of the overall structure and behavior of the EHR system (system architecture). Architectures have to be open, scalable, flexible, user accepted and user friendly, trustworthy, based on standards including terminologies and ontologies. The GCM provides an architectural framework created with the purpose of analyzing any kind of system, including EHR system´s architectures. The objective of this paper is to propose a reference architecture for the implementation of an integrated EHR in Colombia, based on the current state of system´s architectural models, and EHR standards. The proposed EHR architecture defines a set of services (elements) and their interfaces, to support the exchange of clinical documents, offering an open, scalable, flexible and semantically interoperable infrastructure. The architecture was tested in a pilot tele-consultation project in Colombia, where dental EHR are exchanged.
authors: Electronics and Telecommunication Faculty, University of Cauca, Colombia.
authors: Edgar
authors: E
authors: de la Cruz
authors: Diego M
authors: DM
authors: Lopez
authors: Gustavo
authors: G
authors: Uribe
authors: Carolina
authors: C
authors: Gonzalez
authors: Bernd
authors: B
authors: Blobel
mesh_terms: D003105:Colombia; D003199:Computer Systems; D003201:Computers; D003792:Dental Records; D003813:Dentistry / Q000379:methods*; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D006801:Humans; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000379:methods*; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D017146:Models, Organizational; D016730:Program Development