Abstract

BELTRAN GOMEZ, Adán et al. Information management system for electronic medical records in alternative therapies. Rev. cuba. inf. cienc. salud [online]. 2016, vol.27, n.3, pp.311-326. ISSN 2307-2113.

The use of alternative therapies is on the increase in health care. Most of the health institutions currently rendering such services keep manual records of therapeutic interventions, resulting in inconveniences such as the possible loss of information, lack of patient control and follow-up, lack of interaction and interoperability with conventional medical records, and inability to develop statistical studies based on data from those records. The paper presents an information management system for electronic medical records in alternative therapies based on a conceptual model and an interoperability model based on the Health Level 7 (HL7) standard. For the design of the conceptual model, in addition to the literature review, a mixed research study was conducted with a descriptive observational design using a convenience sample of seven teachers and eleven experts on alternative therapies. Participants were asked about the characteristics of the instruments and tools used by information management experts. A model proposal was developed which was validated by the experts. For the interoperability model account was taken of the technical and syntactic aspects involved in the design of a service architecture for message submission and reception. For syntactic interoperability a message structure was designed based on HL7 and patient information.

Keywords : health information management; health information exchange; complementary therapies; electronic health records; HL7 standard.

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