Abstract:
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The management of electronic health records (EHR), in general, and
clinical documents, in particular, is becoming a key issue in the daily work of
Healthcare Organizations (HO). The need for providing secure and private access
to, and storage for, clinical documents together with the need for HO to interoperate,
raises a number of issues difficult to solve. Many systems are in place to manage
EHR and documents. Some of these Healthcare Information Systems (HIS) follow
standards in their document structure and communications protocols, but many do
not. In fact, they are mostly proprietary and do not interoperate. Our proposal to
solve the current situation is the use of a DACS (Document Archiving and
Communication System) for providing security, privacy and standardized access to
clinical documents. |