ONCO-FAIR Project: Improving Data Interoperability in Oncology Chemotherapy Treatments for Data Reuse.

The ONCO-FAIR project's initial experimentation aims to enhance data interoperability in oncology chemotherapy treatments, adhering to the FAIR principles. This study focuses on integrating the HL7 FHIR standard to address interoperability challenges within chemotherapy data exchange. Collaborating with healthcare institutions in Rennes, the research team assessed the limitations of current standards such as PN13, mCODE, and OSIRIS, leading to the customization of twelve FHIR resources complemented by two chemotherapy-specific extensions. The methodological approach follows the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) framework, organizing the process into four key stages to ensure the effectiveness and relevance of health data reuse for research. This framework facilitated the identification of chemotherapy-specific needs, the evaluation of existing standards, and data modeling through a FHIR implementation guide. The article underscores the importance of upstream interoperability for aligning chemotherapy software with clinical data warehouse infrastructure, showcasing the proposed solution's capability to overcome interoperability barriers and promote data reuse in line with FAIR principles. Furthermore, it discusses future directions, including extending this approach to other oncology data categories and enhancing downstream interoperability with health data sharing platforms.

Módulo Medios diagnósticos para el Sistema de Información Hospitalaria XAVIA HIS / Diagnostic Means Module for the XAVIA HIS Hospital Information System

El Sistema de Información Hospitalaria XAVIA HIS desarrollado por el Centro de Informática Médica (CESIM) está compuesto por módulos que aseguran la informatización de los procesos de las áreas de la institución hospitalaria. En la actualidad la gestión de los principales medios de diagnóstico se realiza de forma dispersa en diferentes módulos o sistemas. En este trabajo se presenta el módulo de Medios de Diagnóstico, desarrollo que permite la gestión de informes de solicitudes y resultados de forma configurable, así como la planificación de horarios y gestión de citas. Se analizó el proceso de negocio asociado a la gestión de información de medios de diagnóstico, se realizó un estudio de sistemas existentes con propósitos similares y se evaluaron tecnologías para su implementación. Se utilizó AUP-UCI como metodología de desarrollo, Java como lenguaje de programación y otras tecnologías libres y multiplataforma. El patrón arquitectónico implementado fue modelo-vista-controlador. El módulo de Medios de Diagnóstico del sistema XAVIA HIS, permite el soporte de los procesos de atención al paciente y la integración de la información sobre los medios de diagnóstico, además fomenta un aumento en la calidad del servicio. El módulo facilita la configuración de aspectos de solicitud e informe de las pruebas diagnósticas y la planificación de horarios y citas(AU)

Hospital Information System XAVIA HIS developed by the Medical Informatics Center (CESIM) is made up of modules that ensure the computerization of hospital institution areas processes. Currently, the management of the main diagnostic means is realized in a dispersed way in different modules or systems. This paper presents the Diagnostic Means module, development that allows the requests and results reports management in a configurable way, as well as the schedules planning and appointments management. The business process associated with the diagnostic means information management was analyzed, an existing systems study with similar purposes was carried out, and technologies for their implementation were evaluated. AUP-UCI were used as development methodology, Java as programming language and other free and multiplatform technologies. The architectural pattern implemented was model-view-controller. The XAVIA HIS system Diagnostic Means module, allows the patient care processes support and integration of information regarding diagnostic means, also encourages an increase in the service quality. The module facilitates the request and report aspects configuration of the diagnostic tests and the schedules and appointments planning(AU)

Módulo Programas Médicos para el Sistema de Información Hospitalaria XAVIA HIS / Module Medical Programs for the XAVIA HIS Hospital Information System

La prestación personalizada de los servicios de salud resulta cada vez más atractiva y eficiente. El empleo de las herramientas informáticas para facilitar este propósito es una necesidad de las instituciones de salud. El Sistema de Información Hospitalaria XAVIA HIS es un ejemplo de la relación entre las necesidades de las instituciones de salud y la evolución funcional del mismo. Sin embargo, en el sistema no se ha concebido la posibilidad de planificar un protocolo que especifique los cuidados y procedimientos que deben realizarse en función del estado de salud del paciente. El trabajo presenta el desarrollo del módulo Programas Médicos para el sistema XAVIA HIS, que permite mejorar la gestión de la información generada durante el procesamiento de los programas médicos en las instituciones hospitalarias. Se realizó el análisis de los procesos de negocio asociados a la gestión de los programas médicos, se empleó como metodología de desarrollo AUP-UCI, JBoss Developer Studio, Java, JBoss como servidor de aplicaciones, PostgreSQL como sistema gestor de bases de datos y Visual Paradigm como herramienta CASE. Como resultado se obtuvo el módulo Programas médicos para el sistema XAVIA HIS, que permite la configuración de un programa médico a un paciente con una determinada enfermedad agrupando varios servicios, procedimientos, investigaciones clínicas por cada área del hospital(AU).

The health services personalized provision is becoming increasingly attractive and efficient. The computer tools used to facilitate this purpose is a necessity for health institutions. The Hospital Information System XAVIA HIS is an example of the relationship between the health institutions needs and its functional evolution. However, the system has not conceived the possibility of planning a protocol that specifies the care and procedures that must be performed depending on patient health condition. The paper presents the development of the Medical Programs module for the XAVIA HIS system, which allows to improve the management of information generated during the medical programs processing in hospital institutions. For this work development, an analysis of the business processes associated with the medical programs management was carried out; AUP-UCI was used as development methodology, JBoss Developer Studio, Java, JBoss as an application server, PostgreSQL as database management system and Visual Paradigm as a CASE tool. As a result, the Medical Programs module for the XAVIA HIS system was obtained, which allows the medical program configuration for a patient who has a certain disease, grouping several services, procedures, clinical investigations for each hospital area(AU)

Propuesta de nuevas funcionalidades para la gestión de la Historia Clínica Electrónica en el sistema XAVIA HIS / New features proposal to the Electronic Health Record management in the XAVIA HIS system

La digitalización de la historia clínica, documento indispensable en la atención de salud y que posee carácter legal, es uno de los focos de atención en la e-Salud. El sistema XAVIA HIS compuesto por módulos que informatizan los procesos e interconectan las diferentes áreas de una institución hospitalaria, posee como atributo fundamental, una historia clínica electrónica única por paciente. Esta se compone por documentos basados en el estándar HL7-CDA. Sin embargo, el sistema XAVIA HIS presenta algunas limitantes en la interacción con otras aplicaciones que gestionen la información de salud. En el trabajo se presentan las modificaciones a realizar al Sistema de Información Hospitalaria XAVIA HIS para mejorar la capacidad de gestión de las historias clínicas electrónicas del sistema. Se realizó un análisis de la literatura disponible sobre la gestión de las HCE y se evaluó el mecanismo que emplean sistemas homólogos nacionales e internacionales. Para guiar el desarrollo de la propuesta se empleó la metodología AUP-UCI; UML se empleó para el modelado de los artefactos de ingeniería y BPMN como lenguaje de notación para los procesos de negocio. Las modificaciones que se presentan, le permitirán al sistema XAVIA HIS interactuar con sistemas externos que generen documentos HL7-CDA. Adicionalmente, se añaden funcionalidades para mejorar la impresión de documentos clínicos que se exportan, así como la generación de resúmenes de la historia clínica(AU)

One of the e-Health approaches is the digitalization of the medical record, an essential document in health care and with a legal character. The XAVIA HIS system, made up of modules to manage the processes and interconnect the different areas of a hospital institution, has as a fundamental attribute, a unique electronic medical record per patient. It is made up of documents based on the HL7-CDA standard. However, the XAVIA HIS system presents some limitations to interaction with other applications also managing health information. This paper presents the new features and changes to be made to the Hospital Information System XAVIA HIS to improve the electronic medical records management of the mentioned system. An analysis of the available literature on EHR management was carried out and the mechanism used by national and international counterpart systems was evaluated. To guide the development of the proposal, the AUP-UCI methodology was used; UML was used for modeling the engineering artifacts and BPMN as a notation language for business processes. The modifications that are presented will allow the XAVIA HIS system to interact with external systems which also generate HL7-CDA documents. Additionally, functionalities are added to improve the printing of clinical documents that are exported, as well as the generation of summaries of the medical record(AU)

Clinical Genomic Sequencing Reports in Electronic Health Record Systems Based on International Standards: Implementation Study.

BACKGROUND: To implement standardized machine-processable clinical sequencing reports in an electronic health record (EHR) system, the International Organization for Standardization Technical Specification (ISO/TS) 20428 international standard was proposed for a structured template. However, there are no standard implementation guidelines for data items from the proposed standard at the clinical site and no guidelines or references for implementing gene sequencing data results for clinical use. This is a significant challenge for implementation and application of these standards at individual sites. OBJECTIVE: This study examines the field utilization of genetic test reports by designing the Health Level 7 (HL7) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) for genomic data elements based on the ISO/TS 20428 standard published as the standard for genomic test reports. The goal of this pilot is to facilitate the reporting and viewing of genomic data for clinical applications. FHIR Genomics resources predominantly focus on transmitting or representing sequencing data, which is of less clinical value. METHODS: In this study, we describe the practical implementation of ISO/TS 20428 using HL7 FHIR Genomics implementation guidance to efficiently deliver the required genomic sequencing results to clinicians through an EHR system. RESULTS: We successfully administered a structured genomic sequencing report in a tertiary hospital in Korea based on international standards. In total, 90 FHIR resources were used. Among 41 resources for the required fields, 26 were reused and 15 were extended. For the optional fields, 28 were reused and 21 were extended. CONCLUSIONS: To share and apply genomic sequencing data in both clinical practice and translational research, it is essential to identify the applicability of the standard-based information system in a practical setting. This prototyping work shows that reporting data from clinical genomics sequencing can be effectively implemented into an EHR system using the existing ISO/TS 20428 standard and FHIR resources.

Towards Interoperability in Clinical Research - Enabling FHIR on the Open-Source Research Platform XNAT.

This paper presents an approach to enable interoperability of the research data management system XNAT by the implementation of the HL7 standards framework Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR). The FHIR implementation is realized as an XNAT plugin (Source code: https://github.com/somnonetz/xnat-fhir-plugin ), that allows easy adoption in arbitrary XNAT instances. The approach is demonstrated on patient data exchange between a FHIR reference implementation and XNAT.

Evaluating the Coverage of the HL7 ® FHIR ® Standard to Support eSource Data Exchange Implementations for use in Multi-Site Clinical Research Studies.

The direct use of EHR data in research, often referred to as 'eSource', has long-been a goal for researchers because of anticipated increases in data quality and reductions in site burden. eSource solutions should rely on data exchange standards for consistency, quality, and efficiency. The utility of any data standard can be evaluated by its ability to meet specific use case requirements. The Health Level Seven (HL7 ® ) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR ® ) standard is widely recognized for clinical data exchange; however, a thorough analysis of the standard's data coverage in supporting multi-site clinical studies has not been conducted. We developed and implemented a systematic mapping approach for evaluating HL7 ® FHIR ® standard coverage in multi-center clinical trials. Study data elements from three diverse studies were mapped to HL7 ® FHIR ® resources, offering insight into the coverage and utility of the standard for supporting the data collection needs of multi-site clinical research studies.

Key security and privacy issues from implementing the National Electronic Health Record in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

BACKGROUND: In countries that have not implemented Electronic Health Records (EHR) comprehensively, international organizations are important steps in the development of EHR. AIMS: The objective of this study was to compare different dimensions of privacy in the EHR systems in terms of the following standards organizations: ASTM, Health Level Seven (HL7), and International Organization for Standardization (ISO), in order to create a security and privacy model for EHR. METHODS: This study was done in two steps: 1) survey of standards organizations, and 2) compare standards in comparative tables. RESULTS: Standards 12, 1 and 5 were extracted from the ASTM, HL7 and ISO respectively. CONCLUSIONS: Evidence shows that the goal of standards was to create EHR systems that identified not only the access level of users, but taking consent for reveal information of people and also approved data by authorized persons in a secure framework. In this regard, ASTM looks comprehensive for privacy issues, while ISO18308 focuses on security issues and data interoperability simultaneously, while Hl7 has emphasized access.

Using HL7 FHIR to achieve interoperability in patient health record.

The rapid growth and acceptance of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and standards to exchange EHRs have improved various aspects of health practices and patient care. However, the data captured in an EHR is only accessible to the providers and specialists within an organization, but not the patient. The concept of a Personal Health Record (PHR) is to allow the patients to record and manage their health data beyond EHR and if possible, see the EHR data in the PHR. Experts agree that bi-directional communication between the PHR and EHR allows the PHR to be more effective and a valuable tool for both the providers and patients. Communicating near real-time patient recorded data in PHR with an EHR will allow the provider(s) to make appropriate clinical decisions and patients can see any changes to his/her diagnostics or treatment plans. This research explores and critically analyzes HL7 FHIR to design and prototype an interoperable mobile PHR that conforms to the HL7 PHR Functional Model and allows bi-directional communication with OpenEMR.

Active Learning of the HL7 Medical Standard.

Health Level Seven (HL7®) is a standard for exchanging information between medical information systems. It is widely deployed and covers the exchange of information in several functional domains. It is very important and crucial to achieve interoperability in healthcare. HL7 competences are needed by all professionals touching information technology in healthcare. However, learning the standard has always been long and difficult due to its large breadth as well as to large and complex documentation. In this paper, we describe an innovative active learning approach based on solving problems from real clinical scenarios to learn the HL7 standard, quickly. We present the clinical scenarios used to achieve learning. For each scenario, we describe and discuss the learning objectives, clinical problem, clinical data, scaffolding introduction to the standard, software used, and the work required from the students. We present and discuss the results obtained by implementing the proposed approach during several semesters as part of a graduate course. Our proposed method has proven that HL7 can be learned quickly. We were successful in enabling students of different backgrounds to gain confidence and get familiar with a complex healthcare standard without the need for any software development skill.

Data standards for interoperability of care team information to support care coordination of complex pediatric patients.

OBJECTIVE: Seamless access to information about the individuals and organizations involved in the care of a specific patient ("care teams") is crucial to effective and efficient care coordination. This is especially true for vulnerable and complex patient populations such as pediatric patients with special needs. Despite wide adoption of electronic health records (EHR), current EHR systems do not adequately support the visualization and management of care teams within and across health care organizations. Electronic health information exchange has the potential to address this issue. In the present study, we assessed the adequacy of available health information exchange data standards to support the information needs related to care coordination of complex pediatric patients. METHODS: We derived data elements from the information needs of clinicians and parents to support patient care teams; and mapped them to data elements in the Health Level Seven (HL7) Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture (C-CDA) standard and in the HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard. We also identified additional C-CDA data elements and FHIR resources that include patients' care team members. RESULTS: Information about care team members involved in patient care is generally well-represented in the C-CDA and FHIR specifications. However, there are gaps related to patients' non-clinical events and care team actions. In addition, there is no single place to find information about care team members; rather, information about practitioners and organizations may be available in several different types of C-CDA data elements and FHIR resources. CONCLUSION: Through standards-based electronic health information exchange, it appears to be feasible to build patient care team representations irrespective of the location of patient care. In order to gather care team information across disparate systems, exchange of multiple C-CDA documents and/or execution of multiple FHIR queries will be necessary. This approach has the potential to enable comprehensive patient care team views that may help improve care coordination.

Opening the Duke electronic health record to apps: Implementing SMART on FHIR.

OBJECTIVE: Recognizing a need for our EHR to be highly interoperable, our team at Duke Health enabled our Epic-based electronic health record to be compatible with the Boston Children's project called Substitutable Medical Apps and Reusable Technologies (SMART), which employed Health Level Seven International's (HL7) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR), commonly known as SMART on FHIR. METHODS: We created a custom SMART on FHIR-compatible server infrastructure written in Node.js that served two primary functions. First, it handled API management activities such rate-limiting, authorization, auditing, logging, and analytics. Second, it retrieved the EHR data and made it available in a FHIR-compatible format. Finally, we made required changes to the EHR user interface to allow us to integrate several compatible apps into the provider- and patient-facing EHR workflows. RESULTS: After integrating SMART on FHIR into our Epic-based EHR, we demonstrated several types of apps running on the infrastructure. This included both provider- and patient-facing apps as well as apps that are closed source, open source and internally-developed. We integrated the apps into the testing environment of our desktop EHR as well as our patient portal. We also demonstrated the integration of a native iOS app. CONCLUSION: In this paper, we demonstrate the successful implementation of the SMART and FHIR technologies on our Epic-based EHR and subsequent integration of several compatible provider- and patient-facing apps.

Standard Health Level Seven for Odontological Digital Imaging.

BACKGROUND: A guide for the implementation of dental digital imaging reports was developed and validated through the International Standard of Health Informatics-Health Level Seven (HL7), achieving interoperability with an electronic system that keeps dental records. INTRODUCTION: Digital imaging benefits patients, who can view previous close-ups of dental examinations; providers, because of greater efficiency in managing information; and insurers, because of improved accessibility, patient monitoring, and more efficient cost management. Finally, imaging is beneficial for the dentist who can be more agile in the diagnosis and treatment of patients using this tool. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The guide was developed under the parameters of an HL7 standard. It was necessary to create a group of dentists and three experts in information and communication technologies from different institutions. DISCUSSION: Diagnostic images scanned with conventional radiology or from a radiovisiograph can be converted to Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) format, while also retaining patient information. The guide shows how the information of the health record of the patient and the information of the dental image could be standardized in a Clinical Dental Record document using international informatics standard like HL7-V3-CDA document (dental document Level 2). Since it is an informatics standardized document, it could be sent, stored, or displayed using different devices-personal computers or mobile devices-independent of the platform used. CONCLUSIONS: Interoperability using dental images and dental record systems reduces adverse events, increases security for the patient, and makes more efficient use of resources. This article makes a contribution to the field of telemedicine in dental informatics. In addition to that, the results could be a reference for projects of electronic medical records when the dental documents are part of them.

Implementation of an ODM and HL7 Compliant Electronic Patient-Reported Outcome System.

Interoperability is one of the biggest issues in health informatics despite of the huge effort invested to solve it. Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) and Health Level 7 (HL7) are two of the most recognized institutions working on this field. Several systems are becoming compliant with their standards; however, the process to accomplish it is not always straightforward. In this manuscript, we present the successful implementation of the CDISC ODM and HL7 import and export functions for "MoPat", a web-based multi-language electronic patient-reported outcomes system. The system has been evaluated and tested and is currently being used for clinical study and routine data collection, including more than 10.000 patient encounters.

Converting ODM Metadata to FHIR Questionnaire Resources.

Interoperability between systems and data sharing between domains is becoming more and more important. The portal medical-data-models.org offers more than 5.300 UMLS annotated forms in CDISC ODM format in order to support interoperability, but several additional export formats are available. CDISC's ODM and HL7's framework FHIR Questionnaire resource were analyzed, a mapping between elements created and a converter implemented. The developed converter was integrated into the portal with FHIR Questionnaire XML or JSON download options. New FHIR applications can now use this large library of forms.

Strategic Deployment of Clinical Models.

The selection, implementation, and certification of electronic health records (EHR) could benefit from the required use of one of the established clinical model approaches. For the lifelong record of data about individuals, issues arise about the permanence and preservation of data during or even beyond a lifetime. Current EHR do not fully adhere to pertinent standards for clinical data, where it is known for some 20 plus years that standardization of health data is a cornerstone for patient safety, interoperability, data retrieval for various purposes and the lifelong preservation of such data. This paper briefly introduces the issues and gives a brief recommendation for future work in this area.

Towards mHealth Assessment Guidelines for interoperability: HL7 FHIR.

The number of health-related mobile apps (mHealth apps) has increased dramatically over the last three years. Health professionals have started recommending apps to their patients, while healthcare systems, advocacy groups, and professional societies review or commission apps of relevance to their members. Still the issues surrounding mHealth apps are strongly debated as policy makers and legislators seek to strike the right balance between a voluntary code of conduct and regulation that can offer eHealth consumers the guidance and support they need. This paper reviews the EU policy landscape surrounding mobile health focusing on issues identified in the Green paper and follow-up activities. Then, it moves on to discuss HL7 FHIR, the mHealth WG, and relevant standardization projects and reflect on the implications for large scale eHealth deployment in Europe.

Systems Architecture for a Nationwide Healthcare System.

From a national level to give Internet technology support, the Nationwide Integrated Healthcare System in Uruguay requires a model of Information Systems Architecture. This system has multiple healthcare providers (public and private), and a strong component of supplementary services. Thus, the data processing system should have an architecture that considers this fact, while integrating the central services provided by the Ministry of Public Health. The national electronic health record, as well as other related data processing systems, should be based on this architecture. The architecture model described here conceptualizes a federated framework of electronic health record systems, according to the IHE affinity model, HL7 standards, local standards on interoperability and security, as well as technical advice provided by AGESIC. It is the outcome of the research done by AGESIC and Systems Integration Laboratory (LINS) on the development and use of the e-Government Platform since 2008, as well as the research done by the team Salud.uy since 2013.

INITIATE: An Intelligent Adaptive Alert Environment.

Exposure to a large volume of alerts generated by medical Alert Generating Systems (AGS) such as drug-drug interaction softwares or clinical decision support systems over-whelms users and causes alert fatigue in them. Some of alert fatigue effects are ignoring crucial alerts and longer response times. A common approach to avoid alert fatigue is to devise mechanisms in AGS to stop them from generating alerts that are deemed irrelevant. In this paper, we present a novel framework called INITIATE: an INtellIgent adapTIve AlerT Environment to avoid alert fatigue by managing alerts generated by one or more AGS. We have identified and categories the lifecycle of different alerts and have developed alert management logic as per the alerts' lifecycle. Our framework incorporates an ontology that represents the alert management strategy and an alert management engine that executes this strategy. Our alert management framework offers the following features: (1) Adaptability based on users' feedback; (2) Personalization and aggregation of messages; and (3) Connection to Electronic Medical Records by implementing a HL7 Clinical Document Architecture parser.