Affiliation:
1. Centro ALGORITMI, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2. University of the Azores, Portugal
Abstract
The growth of electronic health records (EHR) produced by health facilities has been exponential, leading to massive and heterogeneous data storage. This raises the need for secure, continuous, and interoperable data structuring between different legacy systems. The OpenEHR standard provides open data specifications that aim to overcome recognized gaps in the collection, storage, and management of clinical records. In this sense, this chapter describes a case study applied in an emergency context, where 14-year clinical records were restructured to an interoperable and standardized environment, according to the OpenEHR specifications.