Enabling Better Interoperability for HealthCare: Lessons in Developing a Standards Based Application Programing Interface for Electronic Medical Record Systems.
We sought to enable better interoperability and easy adoption of healthcare applications by developing a standardized domain independent Application Programming Interface (API) for an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system. We leveraged the modular architecture of the Open Medical Record System (Ope...
| Published in: | Journal of Medical Systems Vol. 39; no. 11; pp. 1 - 9 |
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| Format: | pictorial tables/charts Journal Article |
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Springer Nature
Nov2015
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