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The role of ontologies for sustainable, semantically interoperable and trustworthy EHR solutions

  • Bernd Blobel
  • , Dipak Kalra
  • , Marc Koehn
  • , Ken Lunn
  • , Peter Pharow
  • , Pekka Ruotsalainen
  • , Stefan Schulz
  • , Barry Smith
  • University of Regensburg
  • University College London
  • Gordon Point Informatics Ltd.
  • NHS England
  • National Institute for Health and Welfare
  • University of Freiburg

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Abstract

As health systems around the world turn towards highly distributed, specialized and cooperative structures to increase quality and safety of care as well as efficiency and efficacy of delivery processes, there is a growing need for supporting communication and collaboration of all parties involved with advanced ICT solutions. The Electronic Health Record (EHR) provides the information platform which is maturing towards the eHealth core application. To meet the requirements for sustainable, semantically interoperable, and trustworthy EHR solutions, different standards and different national strategies have been established. The workshop summarizes the requirements for such advanced EHR systems and their underlying architecture, presents different strategies and solutions advocated by corresponding protagonists, discusses pros and cons as well as harmonization and migration strategies for those approaches. It particularly highlights a turn towards ontology-driven architectures. The workshop is a joint activity of the EFMI Working Groups "Electronic Health Records" and "Security, Safety and Ethics".

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMedical Informatics in a United and Healthy Europe - Proceedings of MIE 2009
Subtitle of host publicationThe 22nd International Congress of the European Federation for Medical Informatics
PublisherIOS Press
Pages953-957
Number of pages5
ISBN (Print)9781607500445
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Event22nd International Conference on Medical Informatics Europe, MIE 2009 - Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: Aug 30 2009Sep 2 2009

Publication series

NameStudies in Health Technology and Informatics
Volume150
ISSN (Print)0926-9630
ISSN (Electronic)1879-8365

Conference

Conference22nd International Conference on Medical Informatics Europe, MIE 2009
Country/TerritoryBosnia and Herzegovina
CitySarajevo
Period08/30/0909/2/09

Keywords

  • eHealth platform
  • EHR architecture
  • Electronic health records
  • Interoperability
  • Ontology

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