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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| author | Minho Lee Eunyoung Heo Heesook Lim Jun Young Lee Sangho Weon Hoseok Chae Hee Hwang Sooyoung Yoo |
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-02a3f86c0ada4f028ffd8e381f53c0be2022-12-22T04:16:39ZengThe Korean Society of Medical InformaticsHealthcare Informatics Research2093-36812093-369X2015-01-01211212910.4258/hir.2015.21.1.21808Developing a Common Health Information Exchange Platform to Implement a Nationwide Health Information Network in South KoreaMinho Lee0Eunyoung Heo1Heesook Lim2Jun Young Lee3Sangho Weon4Hoseok Chae5Hee Hwang6Sooyoung Yoo7R&D Center, ezCaretech Co. Ltd., Seoul, Korea.Center for Medical Informatics, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea.R&D Center, ezCaretech Co. Ltd., Seoul, Korea.IT Convergence Policy Team, National IT Industry Promotion Agency, Seoul, Korea.IT Convergence Policy Team, National IT Industry Promotion Agency, Seoul, Korea.R&D Center, ezCaretech Co. Ltd., Seoul, Korea.Center for Medical Informatics, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea.Center for Medical Informatics, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, 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 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.http://e-hir.org/upload/pdf/hir-21-21.pdfhealth information exchangeelectronic health recordshealth level sevencomputer systemdata security |
| spellingShingle | Minho Lee Eunyoung Heo Heesook Lim Jun Young Lee Sangho Weon Hoseok Chae Hee Hwang Sooyoung Yoo Developing a Common Health Information Exchange Platform to Implement a Nationwide Health Information Network in South Korea Healthcare Informatics Research health information exchange electronic health records health level seven computer system data security |
| title | Developing a Common Health Information Exchange Platform to Implement a Nationwide Health Information Network in South Korea |
| title_full | Developing a Common Health Information Exchange Platform to Implement a Nationwide Health Information Network in South Korea |
| title_fullStr | Developing a Common Health Information Exchange Platform to Implement a Nationwide Health Information Network in South Korea |
| title_full_unstemmed | Developing a Common Health Information Exchange Platform to Implement a Nationwide Health Information Network in South Korea |
| title_short | Developing a Common Health Information Exchange Platform to Implement a Nationwide Health Information Network in South Korea |
| title_sort | developing a common health information exchange platform to implement a nationwide health information network in south korea |
| topic | health information exchange electronic health records health level seven computer system data security |
| url | http://e-hir.org/upload/pdf/hir-21-21.pdf |
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