Advanced Interoperability Techniques: Structure Mapping Service in CrowdHEALTH Project.

Introduction: Due to healthcare information systems interoperability issues, health-related events may be missed. Numerous techniques based on medical standards and technologies have been recommended to address this challenge. Nevertheless, these techniques do not follow a holistic approach.

Interoperability Techniques in CrowdHEALTH project: The Terminology Service.

Introduction: Healthcare information systems' (HIS) lack of interoperability remains a challenge and a barrier for important health-related events detection. While relevant techniques are based on medical standards and technologies, these techniques do not follow a holistic approach. The creation of a set of tools that fulfils the needs of interoperability is needed.

Solving the interoperability challenge of a distributed complex patient guidance system: a data integrator based on HL7's Virtual Medical Record standard.

Objective: We show how the HL7 Virtual Medical Record (vMR) standard can be used to design and implement a data integrator (DI) component that collects patient information from heterogeneous sources and stores it into a personal health record, from which it can then retrieve data. Our working hypothesis is that the HL7 vMR standard in its release 1 version can properly capture the semantics needed to drive evidence-based clinical decision support systems.

Materials And Methods: To achieve seamless communication between the personal health record and heterogeneous data consumers, we used a three-pronged approach.

Molecular identification of Echinococcus isolates from Peru.

Genetic variations in tapeworms causing cystic echinococcosis in Peru were investigated. Seventy one larval isolates collected from different intermediate hosts and geographic regions were identified by the DNA sequencing of genes for mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 (cox1) and nuclear elongation factor 1 alpha (ef1a). The G7 genotype (E.

[Practices, knowledge and attitudes about human hydatidosis in Peru].

Between July 2005 and June 2006, a case-control study was carried out to identify risk factors for hydatidosis in Lima, Peru. As a result, 32 cases were matched according to age, sex and birthplace in 64 controls. The participants were interviewed using a questionnaire designed to evaluate environmental and behavior factors associated to hydatidosis.

Identification of risk factors for cystic echinococcosis in a peri-urban population of Peru.

We conducted a questionnaire-based case-control study to identify risk factors for cystic echinococcosis (CE) in Lima, Peru during July-December 2005. Data were obtained from 32 cases and 64 controls. Multivariate conditional logistic regression showed that having owned > or =10 dogs [adjusted odds ratio (AOR) 8.