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Methods Inf Med 2014; 53(03): 160-166
DOI: 10.3414/ME13-02-0008
Focus Theme – Original Articles
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Home-centered Health-enabling Technologies and Regional Health Information Systems

An Integration Approach Based on International Standards
M. Gietzelt
1   Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics, University of Braunschweig – Institute of Technology and Hannover Medical School, Braunschweig, Germany
,
T. von Bargen
1   Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics, University of Braunschweig – Institute of Technology and Hannover Medical School, Braunschweig, Germany
,
M. Kohlmann
1   Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics, University of Braunschweig – Institute of Technology and Hannover Medical School, Braunschweig, Germany
,
M. Marschollek
2   Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics, University of Braunschweig – Institute of Technology and Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
,
J. Schwartze
1   Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics, University of Braunschweig – Institute of Technology and Hannover Medical School, Braunschweig, Germany
,
B. Song
1   Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics, University of Braunschweig – Institute of Technology and Hannover Medical School, Braunschweig, Germany
,
M. Wagner
3   Braunschweig Centre of Informatics and Technology (BITZ) GmbH, Braunschweig, Germany
,
K.-H. Wolf
1   Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics, University of Braunschweig – Institute of Technology and Hannover Medical School, Braunschweig, Germany
,
R. Haux
1   Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics, University of Braunschweig – Institute of Technology and Hannover Medical School, Braunschweig, Germany
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Publication History

received: 02 May 2013

accepted: 06 January 2013

Publication Date:
20 January 2018 (online)

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Summary

Introduction: This article is part of the Focus Theme of Methods of Information in Medicine on “Using Data from Ambient Assisted Living and Smart Homes in Electronic Health Records”.

Objectives: In this paper, we present a prototype of a Home-Centered Health- Enabling Technology (HET-HC), which is able to capture, store, merge and process data from various sensor systems at people’s home. In addition, we present an architecture designed to integrate HET-HC into an exem -plary regional Health Information System (rHIS).

Methods: rHIS are traditionally document-based to fit to the needs in a clinical context. However, HET-HC are producing continuous data streams for which documents might be an inappropriate representation. Therefore, the HET-HC could register placeholder-documents at rHIS. These placeholder-documents are assembled upon user-authenticated request by the HET-HC and are always up-to-date. Moreover, it is not trivial to find a clinical coding system for continuous sensor data and to make the data machine-readable in order to enhance the interoperability of such systems. Therefore, we propose the use of SNOCAP-HET, which is a nomenclature to describe the context of sensor-based measurements in health-enabling technologies.

Results: We present an architectural approach to integrate HET-HC into rHIS. Our solution is the centralized registration of placeholder-documents with rHIS and the decentralized data storage at people’s home.

Conclusions: We concluded that the pre -sented architecture of integrating HET-HC into rHIS might fit well to the traditional approach of document-based data storage. Data security and privacy issues are also duly considered.

Keywords

Health-enabling technologies - regional health information systems - system integration
 

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