Paper
Managing Information Sharing in Patient-Centered Healthcare
- Authors:
- Juha Puustj?rvi; Leena Puustj?rvi
- Abstract
- Patient-centered healthcare is an emerging healthcare model that optimizes the healthcare system to focus on patient experience and outcomes for better health and well-being. It requires that patients as well as physicians should have the ability to obtain and understand health information, and make appropriate health decisions. A problem is how such health information should be gathered from a variety of heterogeneous data sources, and how patient and physicians should access such information. Our argument is that the gathered information should not be presented as a collection of XML-documents but rather as an ontology. Further by storing the ontology in a cloud we can easily share patients’ health information among patient’s healthcare team. How this kind of solution can be implemented by exploiting healthcare standards, ontology languages and cloud technologies is the topic of this article.
- Keywords
- Personal Health Records; Patient-centered healthcare; Information Based Medicine; Information Therapy; HL7 RIM; Interoperability; Ontologies
- StartPage
- 43
- EndPage
- 56
- Doi
- 10.5963/PHF0303001