Open source EMR software: Profiling, insights and hands-on analysis

Kiah, Miss Laiha Mat; Haiqi, Ahmed; Zaidan, B. B.; Zaidan, A. A.

doi:10.1016/j.cmpb.2014.07.002

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“…Fortunately, a set of open source EHR systems is deployed by many healthcare providers. A few of these applications are discussed and compared in [32]. In our initial experimentations, we adopted two of these alternatives, namely, the OpenEMR project [33] and the FreeMED [34].…”

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A distributed framework for health information exchange using smartphone technologies

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Al-Haiqi

Kiah

et al. 2017

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

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Nationwide health information exchange (NHIE) continues to be a persistent concern for government agencies, despite the many efforts and the conceived benefits of sharing patient data among healthcare providers. Difficulties in ensuring global connectivity, interoperability, and concerns on security have always hampered the government from successfully deploying NHIE. By looking at NHIE from a fresh perspective and bearing in mind the pervasiveness and power of modern mobile platforms, this paper proposes a new approach to NHIE that builds on the notion of consumer-mediated HIE, albeit without the focus on central health record banks. With the growing acceptance of smartphones as reliable, indispensable, and most personal devices, we suggest to leverage the concept of mobile personal health records (PHRs installed on smartphones) to the next level. We envision mPHRs that take the form of distributed storage units for health information, under the full control and direct possession of patients, who can have ready access to their personal data whenever needed. However, for the actual exchange of data with health information systems managed by healthcare providers, the latter have to be interoperable with patient-carried mPHRs. Computer industry has long ago solved a similar problem of interoperability between peripheral devices and operating systems. We borrow from that solution the idea of providing special interfaces between mPHRs and provider systems. This interface enables the two entities to communicate with no change to either end. The design and operation of the proposed approach is explained. Additional pointers on potential implementations are provided, and issues that pertain to any solution to implement NHIE are discussed.

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A distributed framework for health information exchange using smartphone technologies

Abdulnabi

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Kiah

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Journal of Biomedical Informatics

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“…An EMR system that complies with the regulations of the law is the most important infrastructure [26]. By December of 2014, the number of hospitals that provide an inter-institution EMR exchange service had reached 321.…”

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Building a National Electronic Medical Record Exchange System – Experiences in Taiwan

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Chiu

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Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

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“…Using the routinely collected EMRs for pediatric clinical research is inspected in [18], which finds that one barrier to this use is that pediatric health data are collected for the purpose of clinical documentation and billing rather than research. This barrier gives rise to issues, such as accuracy, completeness, compatibility between settings, and ease of extraction, which also apply to medical records in different healthcare fields [19].…”

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“…Regular automatic backups and/or synchronizations could be scheduled, whereas all the transmissions should be fully encrypted using S4 or S7. 19: Backups in these clouds should be fully encrypted.…”

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A Security Framework for Nationwide Health Information Exchange based on Telehealth Strategy

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This study focuses on the situation of health information exchange (HIE) in the context of a nationwide network. It aims to create a security framework that can be implemented to ensure the safe transmission of health information across the boundaries of care providers in Malaysia and other countries. First, a critique of the major elements of nationwide health information networks is presented from the perspective of security, along with such topics as the importance of HIE, issues, and main approaches. Second, a systematic evaluation is conducted on the security solutions that can be utilized in the proposed nationwide network. Finally, a secure framework for health information transmission is proposed within a central cloud-based model, which is compatible with the Malaysian telehealth strategy. The outcome of this analysis indicates that a complete security framework for a global structure of HIE is yet to be defined and implemented. Our proposed framework represents such an endeavor and suggests specific techniques to achieve this goal.

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Open source EMR software: Profiling, insights and hands-on analysis

Cited by 69 publications

References 41 publications

A distributed framework for health information exchange using smartphone technologies

A distributed framework for health information exchange using smartphone technologies

Building a National Electronic Medical Record Exchange System – Experiences in Taiwan

A Security Framework for Nationwide Health Information Exchange based on Telehealth Strategy

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