Enhancing access to standardized clinical application for mobile interfaces

Abstract

As Electronic Health Records (EHRs) become more prevalent in health care, research is needed to understand the efficacy within clinical contexts for a standard based health application. The current research explores 'Opereffa' to be used for handheld moveable devices. Opereffa stands for openEHR REFerence Framework and Application. It is a project for creating an open source clinical application, which will be driven by the Clinical Review Board of openEHR [2]. It is based on openEHR standard which combines structure of archetypes and terminology codes. This is the first effort for its exploration on mobile devices. The aim is to generate an application programming interface for Android based mobile for its testing on a sample set of archetypes. Later, we will extend this research to other mobile operating systems. The study has been done for increasing the usability and reach ability of EHRs. It enhances data sharing through mobile for standardized EHRs (through use of archetypes). © 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.