Transformation of standardized clinical models based on OWL technologies: from CEM to OpenEHR archetypes.

Journal: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
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Abstract

INTRODUCTION: The semantic interoperability of electronic healthcare records (EHRs) systems is a major challenge in the medical informatics area. International initiatives pursue the use of semantically interoperable clinical models, and ontologies have frequently been used in semantic interoperability efforts. The objective of this paper is to propose a generic, ontology-based, flexible approach for supporting the automatic transformation of clinical models, which is illustrated for the transformation of Clinical Element Models (CEMs) into openEHR archetypes.

Authors

  • María del Carmen Legaz-García
    Faculty of Computer Science, Universidad de Murcia, IMIB-Arrixaca, Spain.
  • Marcos Menárguez-Tortosa
    Faculty of Computer Science, Universidad de Murcia, IMIB-Arrixaca, Spain.
  • Jesualdo Tomás Fernández-Breis
    Faculty of Computer Science, Universidad de Murcia, IMIB-Arrixaca, Spain.
  • Christopher G Chute
  • Cui Tao
    The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA.