• Real-time data are data received immediately after creation and their key feature is low latency.
• Fast Health Interoperability Resources is a widely used electronic health record standard.
• Application programming interfaces ...

Real-time data (RTD) are data that are delivered immediately after creation. The key feature of RTD is low delivery latency. Information systems in health care are extremely time-sensitive and their building block is the ...

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Various formalisms have been developed to represent clinical practice guideline recommendations in a computer-interpretable way. However, none of the existing formalisms leverage the structured and computable information that emerge ...

Semantic interoperability establishes intercommunications and enables data sharing across disparate systems. In this study, we propose an ostensive information architecture for healthcare information systems to decrease ambiguity caused by using ...

Interoperability of clinical data remains an issue in healthcare despite technology advancements. FHIR, Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources, is a standard for electronic exchange of healthcare data that is built on web standards, flexible, ...

The scoping review reported by this article aimed to analyze the state of the art of the use of Fast Health Interoperability Resources (FHIR) in the development of homecare applications and was informed by the following research questions: (i) ...

Despite the growing number of diagnosis applications available, real interoperability among heterogeneous solutions and other applications in the e-health domain is still a challenging issue. This paper addresses the integration of data generated by ...

World-renowned pediatric patient care in scoliosis, craniofacial, orthopedic, and other life-altering conditions is provided at the international Shriners Children's hospital system. The impact of scoliosis can be extreme with significant curvature of ...

Because of the Coronavirus disease and the problem of uneven distribution of physicians between urban and rural areas, telemedicine is widely adopted, including tele-dermatology. However, there is still no formal and consistent format for telemedicine ...

Throughout its nearly two hundred year existence, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) () has advanced biomedicine and public health by acquiring, organizing, preserving, and disseminating knowledge essential to health ...

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• There is a need to increase research in cancer survivorship.
• Secondary use of clinical data can provide valuable insights in survivorship care.
• CASIDE is a FHIR-based data model to represent cancer survivor information.
• HL7 ...

Cancer survivorship has traditionally received little research attention although it is associated with a variety of long-term consequences and also many other comorbidities. There is an urgent need to increase research on this area, and the ...

As medical services increasingly trying to harness advances in connected medical devices and the use of artificial intelligence, a new modeling strategy is essentially required to enable developers of the emerging medical applications to organize, ...

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• Envirome web service connects patient context data with the EHR.
• Envirome web ...

Patient context – the “envirome” – can have a significant impact on patient health. While envirome indicators are available through large scale public data sources, they are not provided in a format that can be easily accessed and ...

The CAncer PAtient Better Life Experience (CAPABLE) project combines the most advanced technologies for data and knowledge management with a socio-psychological approach, to develop a coaching system for improving the quality of life of cancer ...

The ability for medical professionals to efficiently process vast amounts of data is critical. We present a solution which offers cloud-secure analytics on healthcare data, utilizing FHIR, the latest standard from the HL7 organization, for the exchange ...

Current epidemiological changes promote a trend toward distributed care provision in the community. Digital platforms allowing the exchange of patient information are essential in optimizing community care. However, these digital platforms should ...

Structuring medical text using international standards allows to improve interoperability and quality of predictive modelling. Medical text classification task facilitates information extraction. In this work we investigate the applicability of ...

• Help CDSS designers to determine the most suitable rule-based technology for modelling knowledge from CGs.

The over-use of antibiotics in clinical domains is causing an alarming increase in bacterial resistance, thus endangering their effectiveness as regards the treatment of highly recurring severe infectious ...

As a consequence of the epidemiological transition towards non-communicable diseases, integrated care approaches are required, not solely focused on medical purposes, but also on a range of essential activities for the maintenance of the ...

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• The Biomedical Data Translator Program was launched in October 2016.
• The ...

This special communication describes activities, products, and lessons learned from a recent hackathon that was funded by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences via the Biomedical Data Translator program (‘Translator’)...

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• Both, German patients and physicians support using a personal health record system.

Although a national Personal Health Record (PHR) infrastructure was supposed to have been introduced in Germany by law in 2006 and different providers are entering the market, no system has yet been widely adopted ...