Electronic Patient Records from a SYNAPSES Point of View

This paper is a presentation of the Synapses project for the 1. TELENURSE conference. The presentation gives an overview of the project, expected outcome and approach to achieve the objectives and outcome. Synapses sets out to solve problems of sharing record information between autonomous information systems consistently, simply, comprehensibly and securely. The results of the Synapses will be in the public domain in the form of a set of specifications and guidelines for electronic record information exchange between autonomous systems. This presentation also gives an example of one of the declared verifications; the nursing summary where also ICNP can be included when desired.