yourEHRM: standard-based management of your personal healthcare information

The standardisation of the architecture of electronic healthcare records is essential for two reasons: i) the records are being used to support shared care among clinicians with different specializations; ii) the standardisation process eases the introduction of mobile technologies within and among countries between people who provide and receive healthcare. It is a common problem previously addressed in the literature that already existing EHR approaches often present interoperability issues that restrain their effective application, since the different system components do not share a common nomenclature, data types, message syntax and encoding rules. Hospitals cannot share the clinical information of the patient. yourEHRM architecture implements standards that enable the exchange of desired medical information. The solution is based on generic information models that conform to openEHR/EN13606 archetypes associated with concepts of well-known terminologies such as SNOMED-CT. Besides it offers the possibility to exchange information with other Hospital Information Systems (HIS) using Health Level 7 (HL7) Clinical Data Architecture (CDA), Continuity of Care Record (CCR), Continuity of Care Document (CCD) or virtual Medical Record (vMR) as the payload. The architecture also permits the integration of data coming from heterogeneous and fragmented healthcare information systems and devices into the EHR.