Public Electronic Health Record Platform Compliant with the ISO EN13606 Standard as Support to Research Groups

This paper presents the design and implementation of a new platform compliant with the ISO EN-13606 standard which facilitates semantic interoperability between clinical platforms. The presented work forms a point of convergence of clinical information originating in distinct institutions such as hospitals, primary attention centers, etc. It enables clinical care continuity, Electronic Health Record (EHR) realistic and practical edition, clinical decision support systems development and secondary research development using medical data mining. The Telemedicine and e-Health Research Unit at the Instituto de Salud Carlos III, as a public institution, has developed this platform allowing its use as support to other research groups and taking one step closer to everyday generalized use of EHRs in hospitals, healthcare and research centers.