@inproceedings{e022e44754cd414bab17b29588bcd202,
title = "Semantic Difficulties in FHIR {\textquoteleft}Conditions{\textquoteright}",
abstract = "One goal of the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard is to prevent semantic ambiguities when patient data are electronically exchanged. To assess whether the FHIR specifications live up to this expectation, we examined FHIR{\textquoteright}s Condition resource thereby focusing on the resource elements {\textquoteleft}clinical status{\textquoteright} and {\textquoteleft}verification status{\textquoteright} when used in combination. We found that the definitions for these elements, as well as of several of their allowed values, suffer from the following semantic difficulties: the use of disjunctive descriptions, the presence of pseudo-synonyms lacking clear explanation of what distinctions FHIR has in mind, and insufficient discrimination between evidence and what such evidence would be about.",
keywords = "Condition-resource, FHIR, HL7, semantics",
author = "Werner Ceusters and Michael Rabenberg",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2025 The Authors.; 35th Medical Informatics Europe Conference, MIE 2025 ; Conference date: 19-05-2025 Through 21-05-2025",
year = "2025",
month = may,
day = "15",
doi = "10.3233/SHTI250263",
language = "English",
series = "Studies in Health Technology and Informatics",
publisher = "IOS Press BV",
pages = "7--11",
editor = "Elisavet Andrikopoulou and Parisis Gallos and Arvanitis, \{Theodoros N.\} and Rosalynn Austin and Arriel Benis and Ronald Cornet and Panagiotis Chatzistergos and Alexander Dejaco and Linda Dusseljee-Peute and Alaa Mohasseb and Pantelis Natsiavas and Haythem Nakkas and Philip Scott",
booktitle = "Intelligent Health Systems - From Technology to Data and Knowledge, Proceedings of MIE 2025",
address = "Netherlands",
}