title: Cross-institutional document exchange system using clinical document architecture (CDA) with virtual printing method.
abstract: Recently one patient received care from several hospitals at around the same time. When the patient visited a new hospital, the new hospital's physician tried to get patient information the previous hospital. Thus, patient information is frequently exchanged between them. Many types of healthcare facilities have implemented an electronic medical record system, but in Japan, healthcare information exchange is often done by paper. In other words, after a clinical doctor prints a referral document and sends it to another hospital's physician, another hospital's doctor receives it and scans to store the EMR in his own hospital's system. It is a wasteful way to exchange healthcare information about a patient. In order to solve this problem, we have developed a cross-institutional document exchange system using clinical document architecture (CDA) with a virtual printing method.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Integrated Medicine, Medical Informatics, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.
authors.forename: Naoki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Mihara
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Informatics, Osaka University Hospital, Osaka, Japan.
authors.forename: Kanayo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ueda
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Integrated Medicine, Medical Informatics, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.
authors.forename: Shirou
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Manabe
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Integrated Medicine, Medical Informatics, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.
authors.forename: Toshihiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Takeda
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Integrated Medicine, Medical Informatics, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.
authors.forename: Yoshie
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shimai
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Informatics, Osaka University Hospital, Osaka, Japan.
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Horishima
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Informatics, Osaka University Hospital, Osaka, Japan.
authors.forename: Taizo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Murata
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Informatics, Osaka University Hospital, Osaka, Japan.
authors.forename: Ayumi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fujii
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Integrated Medicine, Medical Informatics, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.
authors.forename: Yasushi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Matsumura
mesh_terms: D003626:Data Display; D004282:Documentation / Q000379:methods*; D057286:Electronic Health Records / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D007564:Japan; D008498:Medical Record Linkage / Q000379:methods*; D014584:User-Computer Interface