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Methods Inf Med 1999; 38(04/05): 326-331
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1634410
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Architecture Models to Facilitate Communication of Clinical Information

S. Kay
1   Medical Informatics Group, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK
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07 February 2018 (online)

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Abstract

This is an account of the development and use of a context model for facilitating the communication of clinical information. Its function is to articulate the principle of context within a reference architecture for the Electronic Health Care Record (EHCR). The work required a re-examination of established models of communication, the purpose being to use them to support an architecture that could be reasonably expected to accommodate future, and by definition unforeseeable, developments in EHCR communication. The Context Model is built upon seven recognized constituents of communication. These constituents, although having their origin in the engineering of signal communication, have been found to be useful for explication both in the verbal and textual communication of narratives between people. The electronic health care record architecture supported by the model is the European prestandard ENV13606-1.

Keywords

Context - Health Care Record Architecture - Standard - Story
 

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