Publication: Towards Interoperability in E-health Systems: a three-dimensional approach based on standards and semantics
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2009-01-14
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INSTICC (Institute For Systems And Technologies of Information, Control and Communication)
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The interoperability problem in eHealth can only be addressed by mean of combining standards and technology. However, these alone do not suffice. An appropiate framework that articulates such combination is required. In this paper, we adopt a three-dimensional (information, conference and inference) approach for such framework, based on OWL as formal language for terminological and ontological health resources, SNOMED CT as lexical backbone for all such resources, and the standard CEN 13606 for representing EHRs. Based on tha framewok, we propose a novel form for creating and supporting networks of clinical terminologies. Additionally, we propose a number of software modules to semantically process and exploit EHRs, including NLP-based search and inference, wich can support medical applications in heterogeneous and distributed eHealth systems.
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Proceedings of: HEALTHINF 2009 (International Conference on Helath Informatics), Porto (Portugal), January 14-17, 2009, is part of BIOSTEC (Intemational Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies)
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Semantic interoperability in eHealth, CEN 13606, Archetypes, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Web Ontology Language (OWL), Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine–Clinical Terms (SNOWMED-CT)
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Azevedo, Luis, Londral, Ana Luisa (eds.). HEALTHINF 2009: Proceedings of the International Conference on Helath Informatics. Portugal: INSTICC, pp. 205-210.