Kmehr
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KMEHR or Kind Messages for Electronic Healthcare Record is a proposed Belgian
medical data
standard, in order to enable the exchange of structured clinical information
. It is funded by the Belgian federal Ministry of public health and assessed in collaboration with Belgian industry.
The initiative lead to the specification of about 20 specific XML messages (the Kind Messages for Electronic Healthcare Records - Belgian implementation standard or KMEHR-bis).
The folder itself gathers the information about a patient, where each folder identifies the subject of care
(patient) and contains at least one medical transaction.
The medical transaction item gathers the information reported by one healthcare professional at a given instance. Its attributes are type, author, date and time.
, which define request and response elements to offer standard web services.
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
medical data
Medical record
The terms medical record, health record, and medical chart are used somewhat interchangeably to describe the systematic documentation of a single patient's medical history and care across time within one particular health care provider's jurisdiction....
standard, in order to enable the exchange of structured clinical information
Medical classification
Medical classification, or medical coding, is the process of transforming descriptions of medical diagnoses and procedures into universal medical code numbers...
. It is funded by the Belgian federal Ministry of public health and assessed in collaboration with Belgian industry.
The initiative lead to the specification of about 20 specific XML messages (the Kind Messages for Electronic Healthcare Records - Belgian implementation standard or KMEHR-bis).
Structure
The KMEHR standard consists of the following elements:- An XMLXMLExtensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards....
(eXtensible Markup Language) message format defined by the KMEHR XML Schema - A set of reference tables
Message structure
A KMEHR XML message is composed of two components a header and at least one folder. The header of the message describes the sender, the recipient(s) and a few technical statuses.The folder itself gathers the information about a patient, where each folder identifies the subject of care
Patient
A patient is any recipient of healthcare services. The patient is most often ill or injured and in need of treatment by a physician, advanced practice registered nurse, veterinarian, or other health care provider....
(patient) and contains at least one medical transaction.
The medical transaction item gathers the information reported by one healthcare professional at a given instance. Its attributes are type, author, date and time.
Coding
The KMEHR-bis standard comprises a set of dictionaries which define the transaction types, heading types, item types, severity levels and administration routes.External links
The KMEHR-bis standard supports links to either internal or external objects, e.g. an image or another KMEHR-message.Services
The KMEHR-Bis specification is extended with web services, based on SOAPSOAP
SOAP, originally defined as Simple Object Access Protocol, is a protocol specification for exchanging structured information in the implementation of Web Services in computer networks...
, which define request and response elements to offer standard web services.
See also
- Summarized Electronic Health Record (SumEHR)
- Belgian Health Telematics CommissionBelgian Health Telematics CommissionThe Belgian Health Telematics Commission is a Belgian government committee working on standards for exchanging and sharing of health information, between health care participants. The committee provides advice on eHealth to the Belgian government...
(BHTC) - FLOWFLOW (Belgium)FLOW is a Belgian national health care network, meant for health care providers and patients. It is an acronym which stands for Facilities , Legal implementation , Organisations and Wisdom...
- Electronic Health RecordElectronic Health RecordAn electronic health record is an evolving concept defined as a systematic collection of electronic health information about individual patients or populations...
(EHR) - Electronic medical recordElectronic medical recordAn electronic medical record is a computerized medical record created in an organization that delivers care, such as a hospital or physician's office...
- Health Level 7Health Level 7Health Level Seven , is an all-volunteer, non-profit organization involved in development of international healthcare informatics interoperability standards...
- Clinical Document ArchitectureClinical Document ArchitectureThe HL7 Clinical Document Architecture is an XML-based markup standard intended to specify the encoding, structure and semantics of clinical documents for exchange.CDA is part of the HL7 version 3 standard...
(CDA) - Clinical Data Interchange Standards ConsortiumClinical Data Interchange Standards ConsortiumClinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium is a non-profit organization, whose mission is "to develop and support global, platform-independent data standards that enable information system interoperability to improve medical research and related areas of health-care". Their main project, the...
(CDISC)