KMEHR or Kind Messages for Electronic Healthcare Record is a
Belgian
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medical data standard introduced in 2002, designed to enable the exchange of
structured clinical information. It is funded by the Belgian federal Ministry of public health and assessed in collaboration with Belgian industry.
The initiative lead to the specification of about 20 specific XML messages (the Kind Messages for Electronic Healthcare Records - Belgian implementation standard or KMEHR-bis).
Structure
The KMEHR standard consists of an
XML
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(eXtensible Markup Language) message format defined by the KMEHR
XML Schema
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, a set of reference tables and a set of recognized medical transactions compliant with this grammar.
Message structure
A KMEHR XML message is composed of two components: a header and at least one folder. The header of the message describes the sender, the recipient(s) and a few technical statuses.
The folder itself gathers the information about a patient, where each folder identifies the
subject of care (patient) and contains at least one medical transaction.
The medical transaction item gathers the information reported by one healthcare professional at a given instance. Its attributes are type, author, date and time.
Summarized Electronic Health Record
Summarized Electronic Health Record (SumEHR) is a KMEHR message, used for the exchange of medical information. It summarizes the minimal set of data that a physician needs in order to understand the medical status of the patient in a few minutes and to ensure the continuity of care. The SumEHR standard was introduced by the
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government in 2005 and an EMD software package used by a physician (GP) should be capable of exporting a SumEHR message (KMEHR message level 4) for any given patient.
Coding
The KMEHR-bis standard comprises a set of dictionaries which define the transaction types, heading types, item types, severity levels and administration routes.
Object linkage
The KMEHR-bis standard supports links to either internal or external objects, e.g. an image or another KMEHR-message.
Services
The KMEHR-Bis specification is extended with
web services (based on
SOAP
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), which define request and response elements to offer standard web services.
See also
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Belgian Health Telematics Commission
The Belgian Health Telematics Commission (BHTC) is a Belgian government committee working on standards for exchanging and sharing of health information, between health care participants. The committee provides advice on eHealth to the Belgian gover ...
(BHTC)
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FLOW
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Electronic health record
An electronic health record (EHR) is the systematized collection of patient and population electronically stored health information in a digital format. These records can be shared across different health care settings. Records are shared throu ...
(EHR)
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Health Level 7
Health Level Seven or HL7 refers to a set of international standards for transfer of clinical and administrative data between software applications used by various healthcare providers. These standards focus on the application layer, which is "la ...
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Clinical Document Architecture
The HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) is an XML-based markup standard intended to specify the encoding, structure and semantics of clinical documents for exchange. In November 2000, HL7 published Release 1.0. The organization published R ...
(CDA)
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Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium
The Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) is a standards developing organization (SDO) dealing with medical research data linked with healthcare, to "enable information system interoperability to improve medical research and rela ...
(CDISC)
Sources
KMEHR: Kind Messages for Electronic Healthcare Record, Belgian Implementation Standard
Standards for electronic health records
Healthcare in Belgium
Standards of Belgium
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