​STRIVING FOR GOLD - LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR THE OLYMPIC HEALTHCARE INTEROPERABILITY INITIATIVE

Las Vegas, Nevada., March 7 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The spirit of health and well-being is core to the founding principles of the Olympic Games and heralds the tenets of sustainable social development within each host and participating country. With the ambitious goal of integrating advanced digital health information sharing into health services provided before, during, and after the Games, the Olympic Healthcare Interoperability (OHI) Initiative & OHI Foundation have been formed to aggressively pursue this vision.

OHI, a digital health industry initiative with charter sponsorship from not-for-profit organizations HIMSS and SNOMED International, was created to advance the seamless exchange and use of health information globally through the Olympic Games. Starting with the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo, OHI’s goal is to “showcase the possible” and “implement the real”, through the communication of digital health information, for the benefit of the 1,000’s of athletes, trainers and staff, volunteers and attendees. With each edition of the Games, a digital health legacy will be crafted to establish a comprehensive, world-wide infrastructure supportive of appropriate access to relevant clinical information...anywhere, at any time.

Utilizing the latest innovations in digital health, OHI will connect pre-Games, person-specific healthcare information with information generated at the Games by Olympic and Host City healthcare service providers, which will flow back around the world with each individual once the Games conclude. OHI’s initial scope will include patient identity matching and access to international patient summaries with capacity to include the significant facets of a patient’s digital health record over time.  All with the needed security, privacy and consent framework that will ensure appropriate access to all information.

Consider the case of a Jamaican athlete collapsing on the track, showing symptoms of cardiac stress.  Medical personnel at the stadium use an electronic medical record (EMR) system to query the athlete’s electronic records from Jamaica, and discover a number of allergies, current medications, and medical conditions to inform a treatment plan. The athlete, requiring a surgical procedure and transferred to the host city’s tertiary hospital, is followed by the necessary diagnostic and treatment information via OHI interoperability.  Post surgery, the updated medical record is posted to the athlete’s Jamaican EMR system for follow-up medical treatment at home.

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