This project focuses on the development of a personal, cross-institutional electronic patient record (PEPA) and the further development of the PEPA concept. It serves regional communication between all healthcare providers involved in treatment. It combines the advantages of purely physician-managed, cross-institutional electronic patient records (e.g., Med.Netz. Nord) with those of electronic health records, where, in addition to rights management, the responsibility for content lies with the patient.
The PEPA approach strengthens patients’ rights by allowing them to provide data themselves and decide on access permissions, while at the same time ensuring the high quality and completeness of the data contained, as it also comes directly from the service providers’ primary systems connected to the file. The primary systems are integrated using international standards such as HL7 and DICOM. IHE profiles are also used. This ensures compatibility with the telematics infrastructure.
New data islands are avoided. Additional healthcare providers can be quickly connected to the PEPA via appropriate adapters. This prevents media breaks in intersectoral communication, reduces costs by eliminating duplicate examinations, and saves time for service providers on the patient side by eliminating the need for file searches.
