The Health informatics - Electronic Health Record Communication (EN 13606) was the European Standard for an information architecture to communicate patients'
electronic health record
An electronic health record (EHR) is the systematized collection of electronically stored patient and population health information in a digital format. These records can be shared across different health care settings. Records are shared thro ...
s (EHRs). The standard was later adopted as ISO 13606 and later replaced with ISO 13606-2 and recently ISO 13606-5:2010.
This standard was intended to support the interoperability of systems and components that need to communicate (access, transfer, add or modify) EHR data via electronic messages or as distributed objects:
* preserving the original clinical meaning intended by the author;
* reflecting the confidentiality of that data as intended by the author and patient.
References
External links
EN13606 community and information sitePublished Archetypes by Minas Gerais, Brazil (Portuguese)Poseacle Converter and Repository
See also
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Clinical Document Architecture (CDA)
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Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium
The Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) is a standards developing organization (SDO) dealing with medical research data linked with healthcare,made to enable information system interoperability and to improve medical research a ...
(CDISC)
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Continuity of Care Record
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European Institute for Health Records
The European Institute for Health Records or EuroRec Institute is a non-profit organization founded in 2002 as part of the ProRec initiative. On 13 May 2003, the institute was established as a non-profit organization under French law. Current Pre ...
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Health Informatics Service Architecture (HISA)
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Standards for electronic health records
International standards