Electronic Medical Records Systems Standards

Many standards govern the electronic medical records systems and the electronic health record systems. Let us discuss each one of them in detail.

ISO 18308 – The ISO 18308 standard deals with the clinical and technical requirements for the electronic medical recording systems architecture. It includes exchanging electronic health and medical healthy records across different health and medical records across different health sectors and countries.

ASTM Committee E31.19 – These standards are based on the electronic health record content and structure.

CEN 13606 – These set of standards includes the HER reference model, reference archetypes and term lists and exchange models to support communication.

HL7 v3 – These set of standards are a messaging standard to support communication between the hospital and the medical record systems and between the electronic medical recording systems and the practice management systems.

HL7 Clinical Document Architecture – This is an XML based document model for the clinical based architecture. The standard is used in electronic health records to provide a standard format for entry, editing and accessibility of data.

Some standards are in the work in progress mode. Let us have a look at them.

ASTM Continuity of Care record – This is a projected XML document, which gives a detailed summary of the personal health information, and helps achieve integration between medical records.

E-MS Electronic Medical Summary – This is a projected standard for the Canadian Province of British Columbia for the e-MS minimum dataset, messaging standards and the technical architecture.

HL 7 RIM - This is a reference information model which is an all-encompassing model of data structures that healthcare applications can exchange. The RIM is considered an essential part of the HL7 version 3-development methodology.

These are the standards in medical recording systems. As new and new systems will develop, in the future newer standards will also come into existence.