2003 Volume 23 Issue 1 Pages 55-64
This study had two main purposes. The first was to develop a standard set of items for electronic nursing data interchange between hospitals and home healthcare facilities. The second was to implement it on a system. In home health care, sharing patient information is important for continuity of nursing care and early stabilization of patients’ lives. Electronic data interchange of patient information needed for caring can potentially contribute to those goals. Thus we attempted to identify the item, which might comprise a patient summary written by nurses. Then, to make the granularity of each item equal, we subdivided them into 941 items. As a result, we developed the data set called Nursing Summary Data Item Set (NDIS). In order to use NDIS in actual systems, it is necessary to make Document Type Definition (DTD) of each use case. Then referring to existing nursing summaries used in three hospitals, we defined a DTD that applied NDIS and implemented it on an experimental system.
