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S. Kay

Architecture Models to Facilitate Communication of Clinical Information

Keywords: Context, Health Care Record Architecture, Standard, Story

This is an account of the development and use of a context model for facilitating the communication of clinical information. Its function is to articulate the principle of context within a reference architecture for the Electronic Health Care Record (EHCR). The work required a re-examination of established models of communication, the purpose being to use them to support an architecture that could be reasonably expected to accommodate future, and by definition unforeseeable, developments in EHCR communication. The Context Model is built upon seven recognized constituents of communication. These constituents, although having their origin in the engineering of signal communication, have been found to be useful for explication both in the verbal and textual communication of narratives between people. The electronic health care record architecture supported by the model is the European prestandard ENV13606-1.

Methods of Information in Medicine, Schattauer

Print ISSN: 0026-1270
Volume: 38, 12/1999
Pages: 326 - 331

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