The review of deliverables of the RACSEL project now complete

Continuing with the directives of the first project workshops in South America, this new meeting aimed to revise and validate the deliverables of each of the components: regulatory and legal framework, standards, terminology and architecture.

The deliverables were spread over four documents:

• Reference model: Proposal in the use of standards to achieve interoperability in the Electronic Medical Record of Latin America and the Caribbean.
• Gaps report: The gaps detected on national level regarding the Standards reference model for the network of development of the Electronic Medical Record of Latin America and the Caribbean are analysed.
• Recommendations report: Presentation of recommendations for overcoming the gaps identified in the Gaps Report above.
• Guide to self-evaluation: A guide is presented that allows a country to evaluate itself and to see the state it is in to achieve the sub- objectives identified for the interoperability in the network of development of the Electronic Medical Record of Latin America and the Caribbean.

The Regional Technical Committee viewed both the result and the planning of the meetings highly positively.

THE PROJECT

The RACSEL project (American Network of Corporation on Electronic Health) is an initiative promoted by several regions of South America, Fundació TicSalut and IN2, which aims to find the legal framework, the standards and the reference architecture for introducing the Electronic Medical Record, by focusing on the sharing of information between the regions of Colombia, Peru, Uruguay, Chile Costa Rica. 

Fundació TicSalut takes part in this definition by leading the components of the legal framework, technical and semantic standards (terminology), under the coordination of the company IN2. RACSEL is conceived as a consultancy project based on collaboration, dialogue and the exchange of knowledge and experiences of the interoperable Electronic Medical Record.