OpenHealth Spain 2012

OpenHealth Spain advocates the development of an internet-based integrated clinical management systems. This can be achieved by ensuring that all the data, knowledge and clinical histories/electronic health records (EHR) are compatible, interoperable and transferable. 

The clinical process is based on information, since most of the physician's task is to collect data and process it according to their knowledge. Never the less, medical informatics has not evolved the way it should.

One of the key problems that have been identified as a science healtchare is not well formalized. In contrast, other sciences such as chemistry and mathematics have explicit formulas that are the same in all languages. The difficulty of standardizing the medical language is that there are many types of data and many data collectors. 

OpenHealth Spain seeks to promote discussion and coordination among researchers, practitioners and stakeholders in the areas of ​​health systems interoperability and electronic clinical histories, as well as to promote synergies that enhance healthcare IT research and development.

Some of the topics address will include:

• Standards and Health interoperability models.

• Standards and Clinical Management models and health.

• Technologies for interoperability in the health area.

• Archetypes clinical and sharing.

• Ontologies, terminologies and thesauri in the area of ​​Health.

• Terminological correspondences between ontologies, terminologies and thesauri.

• Storage of clinical information.

• Models medical history and personal history.

• Legal and ethical issues in the sharing of health-related information.

• Systems for seeking health-related information on the Internet.

• Emerging Paradigms in patient information on the Internet (like Gooogle Health).

• Economics and Management in Health Systems Interoperability.