Dear All, We plan to apply for a research proposal, which focuses on importing and exporting archetype compliant EN13606 ehr extracts, originating from medical data that has been stored previously in different proprietary format of the communicating HISs. We plan to test our solution by developing an Archetype representation of a hospital discharge letter that should consider existing specifications for this document type and also integrate our corresponding national requirements for a discharge letter. As the communication framework we would choose IHE XDS, combining it with Archetypes.
May I ask you about your opinion of the ?scientifical significance? of the above sketched idea of the proposal: - Do you know any published implementations of EN 13606 other then these mentioned below? [Maldonado Segura JA. Historia Clinica Electronica Federada Basada en la Norma Europea CEN/TC251 EN13606: PhD Thesis, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia; 2005.] [Munoz A et al. Proof-of-Concept Design and Development of an EN13606-based Electronic Healthcare Record Service. J Am Med Inform Assoc; 2007; 14(1): pp. 118-129.] - Do you know of any previous work of practically applying Archetypes for structured health data communication, maybe also based on XDS? Is the examination of how to efficiently apply the theoretical archetype concept in a practical clinical scenario scientifically valuable in your opinion? - Is a national archetype representation of a hospital discharge letter scientifically valuable in your opinion? Is it scientifically relevant to test Archetypes in real-world problems? Has this been done already and is it published somewhere? Thanks a lot in advance. Christoph Rinner -- Der GMX SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! Ideal f?r Modem und ISDN: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer
