Use of the virtual medical record data model for communication among components of a distributed decision-support system

Author

Gonzalez-Ferrer, Arturo ; Peleg, Mor ; Parimbelli, Enea ; Shalom, Erez ; Marcos, Claudia ; Klebanov, Guy ; Martinez-Sarriegui, Inaki ; Fung, Nick L. S. ; Broens, Tom

Author_Institution

Univ. of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

fYear

2014

fDate

1-4 June 2014

Firstpage

526

Lastpage

530

Abstract

MobiGuide is a distributed decision-support system (DSS) that provides decision support for patients and physicians. Patients receive support using a light-weight Smartphone DSS linked to data arriving from wearable monitoring devices and physicians receive support via a web interface connected to a backend DSS that has access to an integrated personal health record (PHR) that stores hospital EMR data, monitoring data, and recommendations provided for the patient by the DSSs. The patient data model used by the PHR and by all the system components that interact in a service-oriented architecture is based on HL7´s virtual medical record (vMR) model. We describe how we used and extended the vMR model to support communication between the system components for the complex workflow needed to support guidance of patients any time everywhere.

Keywords

biomedical communication; decision support systems; electronic health records; service-oriented architecture; DSS; MobiGuide; PHR; Web interface; complex workflow; distributed decision-support system; hospital EMR data; integrated personal health record; light-weight smartphone; monitoring data; patient data model; service-oriented architecture; vMR model; virtual medical record data model; wearable monitoring devices; Blood; Data models; Decision support systems; Guidelines; Medical services; Standards; Sugar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI), 2014 IEEE-EMBS International Conference on

Conference_Location

Valencia

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BHI.2014.6864418

Filename

6864418