Archetypes for Representing Data about the Brazilian Public Hospital Information System and Outpatient High Complexity Procedures System

TL;DR

This paper develops a set of archetypes for representing data from Brazilian public hospital and outpatient systems using openEHR, facilitating data exchange and testing of health information systems.

Contribution

It introduces 22 archetypes, including new, specialized, and reused ones, tailored for Brazilian health data systems, enhancing interoperability and data testing capabilities.

Findings

22 archetypes created for Brazilian health data systems

Archetypes enable data exchange and system testing

Some archetypes required specialization or new design

Abstract

The Brazilian Ministry of Health has selected the openEHR model as a standard for electronic health record systems. This paper presents a set of archetypes to represent the main data from the Brazilian Public Hospital Information System and the High Complexity Procedures Module of the Brazilian public Outpatient Health Information System. The archetypes from the public openEHR Clinical Knowledge Manager (CKM), were examined in order to select archetypes that could be used to represent the data of the above mentioned systems. For several concepts, it was necessary to specialize the CKM archetypes, or design new ones. A total of 22 archetypes were used: 8 new, 5 specialized and 9 reused from CKM. This set of archetypes can be used not only for information exchange, but also for generating a big anonymized dataset for testing openEHR-based systems.