Can OpenEHR, ISO 13606 and HL7 FHIR work together? An agnostic
perspective for the selection and application of EHR standards from
Spain
Abstract
Due to the heterogeneity of Electronic Health Record (EHR) standards,
the decision-making teams, who are not experts in health information,
express confusion for selecting and applying these resources in their
data platforms. For this reason, a group of experts has analyzed
strengths and weaknesses about design, modeling capabilities,
flexibility and resources implemented of three relevant standards based
on Detailed Clinical Models: OpenEHR, ISO 13606 and HL7 FHIR. Thus, it
was concluded that: (1) they are useful for the purposes for which they
have been designed and show shortcomings in those for which they have
not; (2) they are functionally compatible in health data platforms and
methodologies developed in a standards-agnostic perspective; and (3)
they are conceptually and technically compatible with each other, so the
choice of one or the other does not have a high impact as long as one
starts from the one richer in modeling capabilities and flexibility.