Title :
A framework for adapting health-level7 techniques in Ghanaian institutions
Author :
Damoah, Dominic ; Debrah, Kwadwo ; Nelson, Mukuze ; Takyi, Anthony ; Ansong, Edward ; Goga, Nicolae
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Valley View Univ., Oyibi, Ghana
Abstract :
The project considers the different information systems that exist within the various major hospitals in Ghana solely with the objective to design an application that supports HL7 messaging standard for exchanging healthcare data between major healthcare institutions in Ghana. The ultimate goal is to integrate and share information more reliably reducing the problems of data redundancy, integrity, availability, accessibility, usability, and safety and security. Furthermore, the application should be able to enable communication between databases or migrate data from different databases back and forth irrespective of the database engines used in these major health institutions in Ghana. This research work explores efficient techniques to solving these problems without messing them up.
Keywords :
data integration; data integrity; electronic health records; health care; hospitals; security of data; Ghanaian health care institutions; HL7 messaging standard; Health-Level 7 techniques; data accessibility; data availability; data integration; data integrity; data redundancy; data safety; data security; data usability; health care data; hospitals; information systems; Computers; Conferences; Discharges (electric); Hospitals; Standards; Subspace constraints; Electronic Medical Records (EMR); HL7; Health Information Systems (HIS); Interoperability;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Communication and Systems, 2014 International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-3671-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICCCS.2014.7068195
