RT Journal Article T1 [Health record linkage: Andalusian health population database]. T2 Conexión de registros sanitarios: base poblacional de salud de Andalucía. A1 Muñoyerro-Muñiz, Dolores A1 Goicoechea-Salazar, Juan Antonio A1 García-León, Francisco Javier A1 Laguna-Téllez, Antonio A1 Larrocha-Mata, Daniel A1 Cardero-Rivas, Manuel K1 Almacenamiento de datos K1 Conexión de registros médicos K1 Data analysis K1 Data warehouse K1 Decision support systems K1 Electronic health records K1 Estadística K1 Health information systems K1 Historia clínica electrónica K1 Investigación K1 Medical record linkage K1 Organización y administración K1 Organization and administration K1 Research K1 Sistemas de ayuda a decisiones K1 Sistemas de información en salud AB To describe the development of an information system that connects data from multiple health records to improve assistance to patients, health services administration, management, evaluation, and inspection, as well as public health and research. Deterministic connection of pseudonymized data from a population of 8.5 million inhabitants provided by: a users database, DIRAYA electronic medical records, minimum basic data sets (inpatients, outpatient mayor surgery, hospital emergencies and medical day hospital), mental health information systems, analytical and image tests, vaccines, renal patients, and pharmacy. An automatic coder was used to code clinical diagnoses and 80 chronic pathologies were identified to follow-up. The architecture of the information system consisted of three layers: data (Oracle Database 11g), applications (MicroStrategy BI) and presentation (MicroStrategy Web, JavaScript libraries, HTML 5 and CSS style sheets). Measures for the governance of the system were implemented. Data from 12.5 million health system users between 2001 and 2017 were gathered, including 435.5 million diagnoses, 88.7% of which were generated by the automatic coder. Data can be accessed through predefined reports or dynamic queries, both exportable to CSV files for processing outside the system. Expert analysts can directly access the databases and perform queries using SQL or directly treat the data with external tools. The work has shown that the connection of health records opens new possibilities for data analysis. YR 2019 FD 2019-05-25 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10668/14026 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10668/14026 LA es DS RISalud RD Apr 19, 2025