Applying Use Cases to Describe the Role of Standards in e-Health Information Systems

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Abstract

Individual health records (IHRs) contain a person’s lifetime records of their key health history and care within a health system (National E-Health Transition Authority, Retrieved Jan 12, 2009 from http://www.nehta.gov.au/coordinated-care/whats-in-iehr, 2004). This information can be processed and stored in different ways. The record should be available electronically to authorized health care providers and the individual anywhere, anytime, to support high-quality care. Many organizations provide a diversity of solutions for e-health and its services. Standards play an important role to enable these organizations to support information interchange and improve efficiency of health care delivery. However, there are numerous standards to choose from and not all of them are accessible to the software developer. This chapter proposes a framework to describe the e-health standards that can be used by software engineers to implement e-health information systems.

Keywords

Information systems e-Health Information exchange Health care delivery 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Emma Chávez
    • 1
    • 2
  • Gavin Finnie
    • 3
  • Padmanabhan Krishnan
    • 3
  1. 1.School of Information Technology, Bond UniversityGold CoastAustralia
  2. 2.Departamento de Ing. InformáticaUniversidad Católica de la SsmaConcepciónChile
  3. 3.School of Information Technology, Bond University, RobinaGold CoastAustralia

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