Tag: EHR

Master Thesis project of Tim Kleinloog featured in ChipSoft’s magazine “Mediair”

From http://magazine.chipsoft.nl/mediair-oktober-2015: tim-chipsoft

Professor Uzay Kaymak van de TU Eindhoven leidt het team dat onderzoek doet naar de toepassing van dataonderzoek in de zorg. Gertruud Krekels zorgt samen met haar collega Milan Tjioe voor de zorginhoudelijke input, het team bestaat daarnaast uit een groep onderzoekers van de universiteit. Een belangrijke rol is weggelegd voor Tim Kleinloog, die bij ChipSoft op dit onderwerp afstudeert.


Tim (24) studeert Technische Bedrijfskunde aan de TU Eindhoven en volgt de master ‘Innovation Management’. De titel van zijn onderzoek is ‘A data driven approach to evaluate guidelines for non-melanoma skin cancers (NMSKs)’. “Ik ontwikkel en test de manier waarop Getruud Krekels en Milan Tjioe informatie uit HiX halen om te evalueren hoe de klinische richtlijnen worden gevolgd. Een mooi project, want het is een ideale combinatie tussen ICT, zorg, wetenschappelijk onderzoek, analyseren en programmeren. Heel boeiend om er op deze manier aan bij te dragen dat HiX zorgverleners nóg beter kan ondersteunen.”

Master Thesis Defense Sven Bastianen: Towards an architecture for the support of integrated Personal Health Records

Pieter Van Gorp is proud to announce the very successful completion of the master thesis project of Sven Bastianen.  Sven has worked closely with SAP NL and for the final presentation the large number of attendees confirmed that he tackled a very relevant problem.

Abstract

In the past decade Care Delivery Organizations (CDOs) have widely adopted Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems for storing patient records digitally. As information technology is developing and healthcare is becoming more patient-centered, we notice the development of Personal Health Record (PHR) systems, which enable individuals to store their health-related information in a digital, online fashion. Together with the upcoming trend of Wearable Health Monitoring Systems (WHMSs), which ideally store their information in a PHR system, it is expected that individuals have a valuable collection of health information that can support the healthcare services that they receive.

In this research we investigate the technical challenges and barriers for integrating EMR systems and PHR systems and how these can be resolved in order to come to a more holistic approach in the way health information is used. We do this by analyzing currently existing PHR systems and investigating the current health information infrastructure in The Netherlands, while having a strong focus on interoperability standards, e.g. HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR). In order to also cover challenges that arise from a practical sense, we have built a prototype of an integrated PHR by setting up an interoperability scenario between the EMR system i.s.h.med of Cerner, part of SAP for Healthcare, and the PHR system HealthVault, developed by Microsoft. Subsequently we present an integration design for setting up an integrated PHR. The research is concluded with an architecture that implements the integration design into the current Dutch health information exchange infrastructure AORTA.

Thesis Text

Available from the TU/e library and from here. Thanks to SAP for not requiring any form of confidentiality.