Interoperability of Botswana’s healthcare systems using semantic prescription ontologies
Eunice Chinatu Okon,
Tshiamo Sigwele,
Galani Malatsi
et al.
Abstract:<p>The developing country of Botswana’s health information system faces interoperability challenges mainly due to the lack of shared patient medical data and histories between private and public healthcare providers, which leads to increased medical errors, increased healthcare costs, and potentially fatal outcomes. This research proposes an intelligent electronic prescription ontology (IEPO) framework to share Botswana’s patient electronic health records (EHRs) between private and public healthcare syst… Show more
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