Kmehr

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• Kmehr
• Kind Messages
• for
• Electronic Healthcare Records
• A Kmehr based Hospital Document Server
• André Vandenberghe
• December 5th, 2002

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CHU de Charleroi

• 1542 beds, 5 hospitals, 10 sites
• No medical data server, departmental AS400
  applications
• SIM Système dInformation Médicale
• Home made
• Decided April 2001, Started January 2002
• 3 ETP
• Strategic choices
• Web application .Net
• Kmehr documents for storage and long term archive
• Web services for internal/external data accesses
• XSL for display, XSLFO for printing

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Kmehr related projects

• Kmehr-Bis specification
• S3 integration through Kmehr web services
• Get Kmehr referral letter from GP through S3 (Dec
  2002 !)
• Distribute Kmehr hospital document through S3 (Q2
  2003)
• Distribution of Radiology images/Kmehr protocols
  through web services (operational since October
  2002, very successful)
• Distribution of Kmehr Laboratory results
  through GPRS/PDA (prototype September 2002)

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Kmehr applications
Demonstrations of web services based
applications
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Challenges - Opportunities

• Challenges
• XSLFO not yet fully operational
• XML Query ltgt DWH to be explored
• Opportunities
• remote access by GP to the SIM
• bi-directional Kmehr structured data exchange
• Join a federation of Kmehr servers (web service
  oriented S3)

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Objective
exchange/sharing of standardised and smoothly
structured clinical information through standardis
ed federal communication protocols