Next generation assisting clinical applications by using semantic-aware electronic health records

Abstract

The health care sector is no longer imaginable without electronic health records. However, since the original idea of electronic health records was focused on data storage and not on data processing, a lot of current implementations do not take full advantage of the opportunities provided by computerization. This paper introduces the Patient Summary Ontology for the representation of electronic health records and demonstrates the possibility to create next generation assisting clinical applications based on these semantic-aware electronic health records. Also, an architecture to interoperate with electronic health records formatted using other standards is presented.

Healthcare Information Technology: A Systematic Mapping Study

“…In a critical operating environment, such as a clinical care organization, it is essential to maintain principles such as data coherence and efficiency in information management. For this reason, interoperability between systems is probably the most critical factor in the implementation and management of an information system [25], both regarding communication [26] and the semantic interpretation of information [27]. We can see in the map how, in addition to covering traditional interoperability aspects, semantic standardization and nomenclature aspects are increasingly covered.…”