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International Patient Summary Standard Based on Archetype Concepts

Authors:
Evgeniy Krastev
Dimitar Tcharaktchiev
Petko Kovatchev
Simeon Abanos

Keywords: -semantic interoperability; eHealth; international patient summary; medication summary; archetype concept

Abstract:
The design and software implementation of a standard for International Patient Summary (IPS) is recently in the focus of several updates of major eHealth standards and technical specifications in European Union countries. The design goal of the final draft version of this European standard is to be implementation independent and to enable semantic interoperability in exchanging clinical data. The paper makes a detailed analysis of the relations of this standard with other European projects. The objective of this paper is to implement the IPS standard making use of archetype concepts and demonstrates the implementation in a fully functional web application for exchange of IPS clinical data. The paper makes a detailed review of the dataset structure and the patterns used to describe the sections in the IPS standard focusing on the Medication summary section. On this basis two archetype models are created correspondingly with EN ISO 13606 and openEHR archetypes. A client-server web application is developed to demonstrate the practical application of the archetype model using openEHR specifications. The discussion of the computer experiments leads to the conclusion that archetype models of the IPS standard can fully satisfy the objectives of this standard for cross- border semantic interoperability. The obtained results correspond to existing sample implementations of the IPS with Message paradigm technologies. These results are novel because for the first time they demonstrate the implementation in a client- server application of the IPS standard designed with archetypes.

Pages: 34 to 46

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2020. Used with permission.

Publication date: June 30, 2020

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2660