Visualization of CDA laboratory reports and long term trends as a possible EHR application for patients and physicians.
To increase the patient's acceptance of electronic health records and understanding for their laboratory findings a web application was developed which presents all parameters and possible deviations of standard values in a clear way and visualizes the time based trend of all recorded parameters graphically. Documents corresponding to the Clinical document architecture (CDA) R2 laboratory reports standard and a rapid prototyping framework called Groovy on Grails were used. This work shows, that it is possible to create a useful, standards based tool for patients and physicians with comparatively few resources - an application that could be in similar form a part of an electronic Health Record (EHR) system like the Austrian electronic Health Record (ELGA).
Institute for eHealth, Graz University of Applied Sciences, Austria.
Manuel
M
Obenaus
Institute for eHealth, Graz University of Applied Sciences, Austria.
Harald
H
Burgsteiner
D001317:Austria; D002984:Clinical Laboratory Information Systems / Q000145:classification*; D019411:Clinical Laboratory Techniques / Q000145:classification*; D057225:Data Mining / Q000379:methods; D057286:Electronic Health Records / Q000145:classification*; D055991:Health Records, Personal; D020407:Internet; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D062527:Meaningful Use; D008498:Medical Record Linkage / Q000379:methods; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D010358:Patient Participation / Q000379:methods*; D010820:Physicians; D012984:Software; D018511:Systems Integration; D014584:User-Computer Interface