In recent years, many Personal Health Record (PHR) systems have been developed to retrieve
patients&rsquo / Electonic Health Records (EHRs) from external sources. However, current PHRs
can provide access to only a small number of EHR systems, since there are many dierent
interfaces, data formats and medical terminologies among dierent systems. When this is the
case, all these diversity yields high integration costs. Development of such systems is dicult
and expensive because of the reasons such as accessing to evidence based medical information,
utilization of social networks to share information, incorporation of available medical
knowledge models, etc. Due to the technical diversity of external information systems, a developer
of a PHR system faces a dicult integration process when he wants to integrate a new
source or service.
Integration of medical devices is also important and necessary in a PHR system. However,
most of the medical device vendors use proprietary formats and protocols for communicating
their devices with external systems / again, causing high integration eorts and costs.
In this thesis, these problems and challenges are addressed by providing an on-line personal
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healthcare management platform, i.e. eSaglikKaydim which is built on top of a highly modular
architecture and provides services based on worldwide standards. In this way, eSaglikKaydim
platform can be integrated with any external health information service and medical device
so that it maximizes the data variety retrieved from all kinds of external health data
sources.
The work presented in this thesis is part of the OSAmI project supported by European ITEA
and funded by the TU¨ / BI
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614583/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 September 2012 |
| Creators | Postaci, Senan |
| Contributors | Kesim Cicekli, Nihan |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.S. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | Access forbidden for 1 year |
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