Comparison of Instruments for Measuring Health-Related Quality of Life and Their Applicability to Ehealth Applications.

Health-related Quality of Life (HRQoL) assessment has proven as a good means for assessing treatment options or impact of applications supporting the patient in adherence, monitoring and better understanding of health issues. While most of the HRQoL instruments were designed several years ago, their capability to assess the impact of ehealth application is in question. The objective of this paper is to assess HRQoL instruments including a focus on the ehealth domain.

Identifcation of FHIR Usage Patterns in IHE Profiles.

IHE profiles have been enhanced by FHIR based functionality, however relying on different approaches. Based on an analysis of the 33 IHE profiles using FHIR five patterns have been identified reflecting the approaches, namely (i) wrapping, (ii) adding of FHIR based actors and transactions, (iii) resource operation extension, (iv) purely FHIR based profiles and (v) content profiles relying on FHIR resources. In addition, both the maturity and the development of these profiles over time have been assessed.

Advancing Towards a CDA-Based Trauma Registry Data Submission.

This poster presents an assessment to which extent the data submission to one of the largest trauma registries worldwide can be structured compliant to the clincial document architecture (CDA) and semantically annotated. Overall, complete annotation was achieved for 75% of the items, for the remaining ones annotation failed due to missing codes or concepts for individual items or values of value sets.

Quality Requirements for Electronic Health Record Systems*. A Japanese-German Information Management Perspective.

Background: For more than 30 years, there has been close cooperation between Japanese and German scientists with regard to information systems in health care. Collaboration has been formalized by an agreement between the respective scientific associations. Following this agreement, two joint workshops took place to explore the similarities and differences of electronic health record systems (EHRS) against the background of the two national healthcare systems that share many commonalities.

Ad hoc Participation in Professional Tele-Collaboration Platforms.

Tele-collaboration between medical professionals is well established for specialties like radiology, cardiology or pathology. Typically these applications do not allow for ad hoc participation of non-registered users like patients and / or medical professionals. This paper describes an approach for extending these tele-applications to non-registered users and providing ad hoc participation with means for providing and accessing data.