Developing a Common Health Information Exchange Platform to Implement a Nationwide Health Information Network in South Korea

Developing a Common Health Information Exchange Platform to Implement a Nationwide Health Information Network in South Korea

ObjectivesWe aimed to develop a common health information exchange (HIE) platform that can provide integrated services for implementing the HIE infrastructure in addition to guidelines for participating in an HIE network in South Korea.MethodsBy exploiting the Health Level 7 (HL7) Clinical Document...

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Main Authors: Minho Lee, Eunyoung Heo, Heesook Lim, Jun Young Lee, Sangho Weon, Hoseok Chae, Hee Hwang, Sooyoung Yoo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Korean Society of Medical Informatics 2015-01-01
Series:Healthcare Informatics Research
Subjects:
health information exchange
electronic health records
health level seven
computer system
data security
Online Access:http://e-hir.org/upload/pdf/hir-21-21.pdf
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Summary:ObjectivesWe aimed to develop a common health information exchange (HIE) platform that can provide integrated services for implementing the HIE infrastructure in addition to guidelines for participating in an HIE network in South Korea.MethodsBy exploiting the Health Level 7 (HL7) Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) and Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Cross-enterprise Document Sharing-b (XDS.b) profile, we defined the architectural model, exchanging data items and their standardization, messaging standards, and privacy and security guidelines, for a secure, nationwide, interoperable HIE. We then developed a service-oriented common HIE platform to minimize the effort and difficulty of fulfilling the standard requirements for participating in the HIE network. The common platform supports open application program interfaces (APIs) for implementing a document registry, a document repository, a document consumer, and a master patient index. It could also be used for testing environments for the implementation of standard requirements.ResultsAs the initial phase of implementing a nationwide HIE network in South Korea, we built a regional network for workers' compensation (WC) hospitals and their collaborating clinics to share referral and care record summaries to ensure the continuity of care for industrially injured workers, using the common HIE platform and verifying the feasibility of our technologies.ConclusionsWe expect to expand the HIE network on a national scale with rapid support for implementing HL7 and IHE standards in South Korea.
ISSN:2093-3681
2093-369X

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