Authors:
Ana Dias
;
Ana Isabel Martins
;
Alexandra Queirós
and
Nelson Pacheco Rocha
Affiliation:
University of Aveiro, Portugal
Keyword(s):
eHealth, Pervasive Health, Interoperability, Home Monitoring.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Biomedical Engineering
;
Biomedical Signal Processing
;
Cloud Computing
;
Collaboration and e-Services
;
Complex Systems Modeling and Simulation
;
Data Engineering
;
Devices
;
Distributed and Mobile Software Systems
;
e-Business
;
e-Health
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Health Engineering and Technology Applications
;
Health Information Systems
;
Human-Computer Interaction
;
Integration/Interoperability
;
Interoperability
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Mobile Technologies
;
Mobile Technologies for Healthcare Applications
;
Neural Rehabilitation
;
Neurotechnology, Electronics and Informatics
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Physiological Computing Systems
;
Platforms and Applications
;
Sensor Networks
;
Simulation and Modeling
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Software and Architectures
;
Software Engineering
;
Symbolic Systems
;
Telemedicine
;
Wearable Sensors and Systems
Abstract:
For the electronic health record (EHR) to be considered a true clinical decision support system, it must be
possible to access and integrate the patients’ clinical information collected throughout their lives, guaranteeing
up-to-date, safe and congruent information, immediately accessible at the place of care. Moreover, there is a
considerable capacity to develop and manufacture personal health devices (PHD) highly integrated and
miniaturized, which facilitate the home monitoring of patients with chronic diseases. Since the information
collected by PHD should be integrated in existing EHR, interoperability is an essential requirement of eHealth
to allow the integration of care into a diversity of settings and care providers. The purpose of this systematic
review was to identify and analyse references related to the topic of home monitoring that reveal an explicit
concern with interoperability requirements. Regarding the results and considering the initial 2778 references,
only 2% (61
references) explicitly mentioned interoperability issues and, within these 61 references, only
eight reported end-to-end solutions that can be integrated and usable in care service provision. Therefore, the
issue of interoperability of PHD, both semantic and technological, a priority for the establishment of a remote
patient monitoring solution market, is discussed in this review.
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