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Developing and Sustaining an Open Source Electronic Health Record: Evidence from a Field Study in Japan. J Med Syst 2020; 44:159. [PMID: 32743682 DOI: 10.1007/s10916-020-01625-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2020] [Accepted: 07/16/2020] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are at the heart of reforms aimed at improving the efficiency and quality of healthcare services provided to citizens. Although there is still some skepticism, open source (OS) EHR is a growing phenomenon in health informatics. Given the widespread adoption of OS software (OSS) in several domains, including operating systems, and enterprise systems, the repeated shortfalls faced by healthcare organizations with dominant proprietary EHRs create an opportunity for other alternatives, such as OSS to demonstrate their abilities in addressing these well-documented problems, including inflexibility, high costs, and low interoperability. However, scholars have expressed extensive concerns about the sustainability of OS EHR. Recognizing that OSS project sustainability relies on their governance arrangements, this case study reports on the evolution of the governance and sustainability of a Japanese OS EHR project and provides rich insights to other open source EHR initiative stakeholders, including physicians, developers, researchers, and policy-makers.
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Takabayashi K, Doi S, Suzuki T. Japanese EMRs and IT in Medicine: Expansion, Integration, and Reuse of Data. Healthc Inform Res 2011; 17:178-83. [PMID: 22084813 PMCID: PMC3212745 DOI: 10.4258/hir.2011.17.3.178] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2011] [Revised: 09/20/2011] [Accepted: 09/20/2011] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Objectives The prevalence of electronic medical record in Japan varies according to the size of the hospital which is 62.5% in major hospitals, 21.7% in medium, 9.1% in small size hospitals, and 16.5% in clinics. The complete paperless system is very limited, though some major hospitals are aiming at this system. Several regional network systems which connect different platforms of EMRs, have been developing in many districts, while the final picture of a regional network has not been clearly proposed. To develop a whole electronic health record or personal health records system from the regional network data, we have several obstacles to overcome such as standardization, a privacy act, unique national health number. Methods Some experimental trials have just been started. The reuse of the accumulated data has also just been initiated. We exploited text mining systems (term frequency-inverse document frequency method) to find similar cases and auto-audit Japanese diagnosis related group (DRG) coding by using discharge summaries. Results The same or even a more extreme phenomenon of huge data accumulation is occurring in genetic research and confluence of multi-disciplines of informatics is the next step, which has an enormous accumulation of data and discoveries of the relations beyond the dimension of each informatics. Conclusions We need another approach to science apart from the conventional method, and data-driven approach with data mining techniques must be brought in for each field. Informaticians have new important roles as coordinators to link up numerous phenomena over dimensions.
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Li JS, Zhou TS, Chu J, Araki K, Yoshihara H. Design and development of an international clinical data exchange system: the international layer function of the Dolphin Project. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2011; 18:683-9. [PMID: 21571747 DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE At present, most clinical data are exchanged between organizations within a regional system. However, people traveling abroad may need to visit a hospital, which would make international exchange of clinical data very useful. BACKGROUND Since 2007, a collaborative effort to achieve clinical data sharing has been carried out at Zhejiang University in China and Kyoto University and Miyazaki University in Japan; each is running a regional clinical information center. Methods An international layer system named Global Dolphin was constructed with several key services, sharing patients' health information between countries using a medical markup language (MML). The system was piloted with 39 test patients. RESULTS The three regions above have records for 966,000 unique patients, which are available through Global Dolphin. Data exchanged successfully from Japan to China for the 39 study patients include 1001 MML files and 152 images. The MML files contained 197 free text-type paragraphs that needed human translation. Discussion The pilot test in Global Dolphin demonstrates that patient information can be shared across countries through international health data exchange. To achieve cross-border sharing of clinical data, some key issues had to be addressed: establishment of a super directory service across countries; data transformation; and unique one-language translation. Privacy protection was also taken into account. The system is now ready for live use. CONCLUSION The project demonstrates a means of achieving worldwide accessibility of medical data, by which the integrity and continuity of patients' health information can be maintained.
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- Jing-song Li
- Healthcare Informatics Engineering Research Center, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
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Development of Fundamental Infrastructure for Nationwide EHR in Japan. J Med Syst 2011; 36:2213-8. [DOI: 10.1007/s10916-011-9688-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2010] [Accepted: 03/15/2011] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Cruz-Correia RJ, Vieira-Marques PM, Ferreira AM, Almeida FC, Wyatt JC, Costa-Pereira AM. Reviewing the integration of patient data: how systems are evolving in practice to meet patient needs. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 2007; 7:14. [PMID: 17565667 PMCID: PMC1919361 DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-7-14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2007] [Accepted: 06/12/2007] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background The integration of Information Systems (IS) is essential to support shared care and to provide consistent care to individuals – patient-centred care. This paper identifies, appraises and summarises studies examining different approaches to integrate patient data from heterogeneous IS. Methods The literature was systematically reviewed between 1995–2005 to identify articles mentioning patient records, computers and data integration or sharing. Results Of 3124 articles, 84 were included describing 56 distinct projects. Most of the projects were on a regional scale. Integration was most commonly accomplished by messaging with pre-defined templates and middleware solutions. HL7 was the most widely used messaging standard. Direct database access and web services were the most common communication methods. The user interface for most systems was a Web browser. Regarding the type of medical data shared, 77% of projects integrated diagnosis and problems, 67% medical images and 65% lab results. More recently significantly more IS are extending to primary care and integrating referral letters. Conclusion It is clear that Information Systems are evolving to meet people's needs by implementing regional networks, allowing patient access and integration of ever more items of patient data. Many distinct technological solutions coexist to integrate patient data, using differing standards and data architectures which may difficult further interoperability.
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- Ricardo J Cruz-Correia
- Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Faculty of Medicine of University of Porto, Al. Prof. Hernâni Monteiro, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal
- Centre for Research in Health Technologies and Information Systems – CINTESIS (Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias e Sistemas de Informação em Saúde), Faculty of Medicine of University of Porto, Al. Prof. Hernâni Monteiro, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal
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- Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Faculty of Medicine of University of Porto, Al. Prof. Hernâni Monteiro, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal
- Centre for Research in Health Technologies and Information Systems – CINTESIS (Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias e Sistemas de Informação em Saúde), Faculty of Medicine of University of Porto, Al. Prof. Hernâni Monteiro, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal
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- Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Faculty of Medicine of University of Porto, Al. Prof. Hernâni Monteiro, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal
- Centre for Research in Health Technologies and Information Systems – CINTESIS (Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias e Sistemas de Informação em Saúde), Faculty of Medicine of University of Porto, Al. Prof. Hernâni Monteiro, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal
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- Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Faculty of Medicine of University of Porto, Al. Prof. Hernâni Monteiro, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal
- Centre for Research in Health Technologies and Information Systems – CINTESIS (Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias e Sistemas de Informação em Saúde), Faculty of Medicine of University of Porto, Al. Prof. Hernâni Monteiro, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal
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- Health Informatics Centre, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
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- Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Faculty of Medicine of University of Porto, Al. Prof. Hernâni Monteiro, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal
- Centre for Research in Health Technologies and Information Systems – CINTESIS (Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias e Sistemas de Informação em Saúde), Faculty of Medicine of University of Porto, Al. Prof. Hernâni Monteiro, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal
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Choi J, Yoo S, Park H, Chun J. MobileMed: a PDA-based mobile clinical information system. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006; 10:627-35. [PMID: 16871733 DOI: 10.1109/titb.2006.874201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Patient clinical data are distributed and often fragmented in heterogeneous systems, and therefore the need for information integration is a key to reliable patient care. Once the patient data are orderly integrated and readily available, the problems in accessing the distributed patient clinical data, the well-known difficulties of adopting a mobile health information system, are resolved. This paper proposes a mobile clinical information system (MobileMed), which integrates the distributed and fragmented patient data across heterogeneous sources and makes them accessible through mobile devices. The system consists of four main components: a smart interface, an HL7 message server (HMS), a central clinical database (CCDB), and a web server. The smart interface and the HMS work in concert to generate HL7 messages from the existing legacy systems, which essentially send the patient data in HL7 messages to the CCDB to be stored and maintained. The CCDB and the web server enable the physicians to access the integrated up-to-date patient data. By proposing the smart interface approach, we provide a means for effortless implementation and deployment of such systems. Through a performance study, we show that the HMS is reliable yet fast enough to be able to support efficient clinical data communication.
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- Jinwook Choi
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Korea.
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Guo J, Takada A, Niu T, He M, Tanaka K, Sato J, Suzuki M, Takahashi K, Daimon H, Suzuki T, Nakashima Y, Araki K, Yoshihara H. Enhancement of CLAIM (CLinical Accounting InforMation) for a Localized Chinese Version. J Med Syst 2005; 29:463-71. [PMID: 16180482 DOI: 10.1007/s10916-005-6103-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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CLinical Accounting InforMation (CLAIM) is a standard for the exchange of data between patient accounting systems and electronic medical record (EMR) systems. It uses eXtensible Markup Language (XML) as a meta-language and was developed in Japan. CLAIM is subordinate to the Medical Markup Language (MML) standard, which allows the exchange of medical data between different medical institutions. It has inherited the basic structure of MML 2.x and the current version, version 2.1, contains two modules and nine data definition tables. In China, no data exchange standard yet exists that links EMR systems to accounting systems. Taking advantage of CLAIM's flexibility, we created a localized Chinese version based on CLAIM 2.1. Since Chinese receipt systems differ from those of Japan, some information such as prescription formats, etc. are also different from those in Japan. Two CLAIM modules were re-engineered and six data definition tables were either added or redefined. The Chinese version of CLAIM takes local needs into account, and consequently it is now possible to transfer data between the patient accounting systems and EMR systems of Chinese medical institutions effectively.
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- Jinqiu Guo
- Graduate School of Medicine, Kumamoto University, Honjo 1-1-1, Kumamoto, Japan.
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Guo J, Takada A, Niu T, He M, Tanaka K, Sato J, Suzuki M, Suzuki T, Nakashima Y, Araki K, Yoshihara H. Enhancement of MML Medical Data Exchange Standard for a Localized Chinese Version. J Med Syst 2005; 29:555-67. [PMID: 16180490 DOI: 10.1007/s10916-005-6111-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Medical Markup Language (MML) is a standard for the exchange of medical data among different medical institutions. It was developed in Japan in 1995. Since version 2.21, MML has used eXtensible Markup Language (XML) as a meta-language. The latest version, 3.0, conforms to HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) and contains 14 modules and 36 data definition tables. In China, a standard which structures entire medical records in XML does not yet exist. Taking advantage of MML's flexibility, we created a localized Chinese version based on MML 3.0. Parts of the original specifications have been enhanced; these include a newly developed health insurance information module and 12 additional or redefined data definition tables. The Chinese version takes local needs into account and now makes it possible to exchange medical data among Chinese medical institutions.
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- Jinqiu Guo
- Graduate School of Medicine, Kumamoto University, Honjo 1-1-1, Kumamoto, Japan.
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Guo J, Takada A, Tanaka K, Sato J, Suzuki M, Takahashi K, Daimon H, Suzuki T, Nakashima Y, Araki K, Yoshihara H. CLAIM (CLinical Accounting InforMation)—An XML-Based Data Exchange Standard for Connecting Electronic Medical Record Systems to Patient Accounting Systems. J Med Syst 2005; 29:413-23. [PMID: 16178338 DOI: 10.1007/s10916-005-5899-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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With the evolving and diverse electronic medical record (EMR) systems, there appears to be an ever greater need to link EMR systems and patient accounting systems with a standardized data exchange format. To this end, the CLinical Accounting InforMation (CLAIM) data exchange standard was developed. CLAIM is subordinate to the Medical Markup Language (MML) standard, which allows the exchange of medical data among different medical institutions. CLAIM uses eXtensible Markup Language (XML) as a meta-language. The current version, 2.1, inherited the basic structure of MML 2.x and contains two modules including information related to registration, appointment, procedure and charging. CLAIM 2.1 was implemented successfully in Japan in 2001. Consequently, it was confirmed that CLAIM could be used as an effective data exchange format between EMR systems and patient accounting systems.
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- Jinqiu Guo
- Graduate School of Medicine, Kumamoto University, Honjo 1-1-1, Kumamoto, Japan.
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