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Design and Development of an EHR Platform Based on Medical Informatics Standards

의료정보 표준에 기반한 EHR 플랫폼의 설계 및 개발

  • 김화선 (대구한의대학교 IT의료산업학과) ;
  • 조훈 (경북대학교 의료정보학과) ;
  • 이인근 (경북대학교 의료정보학과)
  • Received : 2011.05.19
  • Accepted : 2011.07.20
  • Published : 2011.08.25
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Abstract

As the ARRA enacted recently in the United States, the interest in EHR systems have been increased in the field of medical industry. The passage of the ARRA presents a program that provides incentives to office-based physicians and hospitals adapting the EHR systems to guarantee interoperability with various medical standards. Thanks to the incentive program, a great number of EHR systems have been developed and lots of office-based physicians and hospitals have adapted the EHR systems certified by CCHIT. Keeping pace with the rapid changes in the market of healthcare, some enterprises try to push in to the United States healthcare market based on the experience acquired by developing EHR systems for hospitals in Korea. However, the developed system must be customized because of the different medical environment between Korea and the United States. In this paper, therefore, we design and develop an integrated EHR platform to guarantee the interoperability between different medical information systems based on medical standard technologies. In the developed platform, an integrated system has been composed by integrating various basic techniques such as data transmission standards and its methods, medical standard terminologies and its usage, and knowledge management for medical decision-making support. Moreover, medical data can be processed electronically by adapting an HL7 interface engine and the terminologies for exchanging medical information and the standardization of medical information. We develop SeniCare, an EHR system for supporting ambulatory care of the office-based physicians, based on the platform, and we verify the usability of the platform by confirming whether SeniCare satisfies the criteria of "meaningful use" issued by CMS or not.

최근 미국의 경기부양 법안이 통과됨에 따라 전 세계적으로 의료 산업분야에서의 EHR 시스템에 대한 관심이 증대되고 있다. 이 법안은 다양한 의료표준을 통해 상호 운용성을 보장하는 EHR 시스템을 도입하는 의원이나 병원에 인센티브를 제공하는 프로그램을 제시하고 있다. 이러한 인센티브 프로그램으로 인해 많은 EHR 시스템이 개발되었고, 또한 많은 의원이나 병원이 CCHIT에서 인증한 EHR 시스템을 도입하고 있다. 미국 의료 산업의 변화에 발맞추어 국내의 일부 기업에서도 국내병원에 EMR 시스템을 구축한 경험을 바탕으로 미국 의료 시장에 진출하려고 노력하고 있다. 그러나 미국과 한국의 의료 환경이 상이하여 개발한 시스템의 개선이 불가피하다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 의료표준화 기술에 기반하여 서로 다른 의료정보 시스템 간의 상호 운용성을 보장하는 통합형 EHR 플랫폼을 설계하고 개발한다. 개발한 플랫폼에서는 전송 표준 및 방법, 용어 표준 및 활용, 의사 결정을 위한 지식 관리 등의 다양한 기반 기술을 통합하여 완성된 하나의 시스템을 구현하였고, 의료정보의 표준화를 위한 표준용어체계와 의료정보의 교환을 위한 HL7 인터페이스 엔진을 탑재하여 의료 데이터의 전자적 처리가 가능하도록 하였다. 개발한 플랫폼에 기반하여 미국 개원의의 외래 진료를 지원하기 위한 EHR 시스템인 SeniCare를 개발하고, CMS에서 제시한 "의미 있는 사용"의 조건의 부합 여부를 확인함으로써 개발한 플랫폼의 효용성을 검증한다.

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