OTKA project, 2002-2003 (T037416)

Project leader: I. Vassanyi, PhD, vassanyi@irt.vein.hu

Univ. of Veszprem

Project summary:

As part of the ongoing development of Hungarian medical informatics, the

various independent informations systems of several medical institutions

will be interconnected, which implies the development of a new unified

electronic health record, designed to conform to the characterisitcs of

Hungarian medical care. However, the exsiting conceptual inconsistencies

among the various systems pose a serious problem in this process.The

goal of the research is to provide technical support for the

interconnection process. In more detail, we plan to:ˇ

--Develop a flexible patient and results record model (reference model)

that conforms to the EHCRA standard and the CDA model as well as the

special Hungarian medical requirements. We plan to use the XML/XSL

technology to exploit its platform-independence.ˇ

--Develop a browser application for the display of the reference model.ˇ

--Develop a method for the interactive conceptual mapping of a certain

medical information system to the entities of the refererence model, and

implement it in a software tool.

Deliverables of the research

1. An electronic health care record (reference model) defined in XML

2. A software application for the browsing of the reference model

3. An application that supports the conceptual mapping of the reference

mosdel and an arbitraly medical infromation system (database).