Healthc Inform Res.  2010 Mar;16(1):1-5. 10.4258/hir.2010.16.1.1.

Review of Semantically Interoperable Electronic Health Records for Ubiquitous Healthcare

• Hwang KH
• Chung KI
• Chung MA
• Choi D

• KMID: 2166559
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.4258/hir.2010.16.1.1

Abstract

In order to provide more effective and personalized healthcare services to patients and healthcare professionals, intelligent active knowledge management and reasoning systems with semantic interoperability are needed. Technological developments have changed ubiquitous healthcare making it more semantically interoperable and individual patient-based; however, there are also limitations to these methodologies. Based upon an extensive review of international literature, this paper describes two technological approaches to semantically interoperable electronic health records for ubiquitous healthcare data management: the ontology-based model and the information, or openEHR archetype model, and the link to standard terminologies such as SNOMED-CT.

Keyword

Ubiquitous Healthcare; Electronic Health Record; Ontology; OpenEHR Archetype; SNOMED-CT

MeSH Terms

Aluminum Hydroxide
Carbonates
Delivery of Health Care
Electronic Health Records
Electronics
Electrons
Humans
Knowledge Management
Semantics
Aluminum Hydroxide
Carbonates

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  Figure 1 Package structure of openEHR information model. EHR, electronic health record.

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  Figure 2 SNOMED CT search browser.

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