Electronic Health Records Aggregators (EHRagg )

Abstract

Background Integration of health data systems is an open problem. Most of the active initiatives are based on the use of standards. However, achieving a widely and generalized compliment of such standards still seems a costly task that will take a long time to be completed. Even more, most of the standards are proposed for a specific use, without integrating other needs. Objectives We propose an alternative to get a unified view of health-related data, valid for several uses, that unites heterogeneous data sources. Methods Our proposal integrates developments made so far to automatically learn how to extract and convert data from different health-related systems. It enables the creation of a single multipurpose point of access. Results We present the EhRagg notion and its related concepts. EHRagg is defined as a middleware that, following the FAIR principles, integrates health data sources offering a unified view over them.

Federated Mining of Interesting Association Rules Over EHRs

“…These federated techniques require a framework that integrates them to take advantage of their potential. We plan to integrate the proposed methods with the EHRagg, [12]. As we have mentioned in the previous section, the synchronous schema has some problems, so an asynchronous proposal that can build an incremental solution would also be interesting.…”

Digital Phenotypes for Personalized Medicine

“…The integration of both health information sources (wearables and EHR) is currently under study ( [6]), mainly from the point of view of data integration than with the focus on patient care solutions; since to achieve this goal the first step is the integration of data from different sources. Solutions as the Electronic Health Records Aggregators (EHR agg , [17]) and the European Health Data Space ( [5]) are the perfect starting points to solve this issue.…”