Improving Health Information Exchange by Combining Interoperable Resources and Digital Collection Integration Tools.

Health information exchange plays a key role in any kind of healthcare system. An important barrier in this exchange is the lack of mechanisms and tools able to fully integrate information models that underlie existing healthcare systems. The current paper presents an approach to gathering multiple sources of clinical data by taking advantage of the HL7 FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) format. The use of this standard format together with the Clavy tool enables a powerful approach to managing digital health collections that can easily be exchanged in different healthcare domains. In this sense, several content items for healthcare training, based on e-learning standards, have been generated from a clinical dataset that combines FHIR resources and DICOM images. Such a generation process shows the capability of the approach presented to coping with the exchange of health information based on multiple multimedia formats and controlled medical vocabularies.