Authors:
Tiago Pedrosa
1
;
Rui Pedro Lopes
1
;
João. C. Santos
2
;
Carlos Costa
3
and
José Luís Oliveira
3
Affiliations:
1
Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal
;
2
Coimbra Institute of Engineering, Portugal
;
3
University of Aveiro - IEETA, Portugal
Keyword(s):
EHR, PHR, Integrated access, Security.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Biomedical Engineering
;
Cloud Computing
;
Collaboration and e-Services
;
Complex Systems Modeling and Simulation
;
Confidentiality and Data Security
;
Data Engineering
;
Design and Development Methodologies for Healthcare IT
;
e-Business
;
e-Health
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Health Information Systems
;
Integration/Interoperability
;
Interoperability
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Platforms and Applications
;
Sensor Networks
;
Simulation and Modeling
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Software and Architectures
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
Electronic Health Records are typically created and stored in different places, by different healthcare providers, using different formats and technology. This poses an obstacle to patient mobility and contributes to scatter personal health related information. Patients constantly move between healthcare providers, searching for a better service, lower prices or specialists. It is important that healthcare professionals, regardless of technology and location, have access to the complete patient health record. The access to this personal health record can be granted through a network (web-based, for example) or can be carried by the patient, in a usb drive, for example. Either approach has to enforce the patient consent to access his information, cope with different types of EHR systems and formats. This paper is an ongoing research, part of a PhD on Electronic Health Records for Mobile Citizens.