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Distributed Agent Based Interoperable Virtual EMR System for Healthcare System Integration

Journal of Medical Systems volume 35, pages 309–319 (2011)Cite this article

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One of the major problems in health care system integration is the formidable cost of mediating between myriad vendors and policy makers for updating existing heterogeneous systems to support a great variety of standards or interfaces. To provide cost-effective healthcare system integration solution, this paper presents a Graphical User Interface state model (GUISM) for automatically exchanging information with existing healthcare software through their GUIs with no modifications needed to them. This can save the huge cost of upgrading, testing and redeploying the existing systems. By using the GUISM model, distributed agents are deployed to the client computers interacting with the local electronic medical system (EMR) for communicating with other EMR systems. The whole system is called virtual EMR system and each client in this system can request needed patient healthcare information without knowing the actual location of the data.

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Acknowledgement

The authors would like to thank to Dr. Corinne Siebel, Dr. Simon Leslie and Mr. Manfred Queteschiner for their cooperation during our study. Thanks to all the staffs in Westgate General Practice Network for providing support to the study of usability and knowledge of healthcare information.

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Yang, X., Miao, Y. Distributed Agent Based Interoperable Virtual EMR System for Healthcare System Integration. J Med Syst 35, 309–319 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-009-9367-5

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Keywords

  • Healthcare system integration
  • Virtual EMR
  • Software agent
  • Graphic user interface