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Management of Clinical Concepts in Bulgarian Healthcare Using openEHR Specifications

Authors:
Simeon Abanos
Evgeniy Krastev
Dimitar Tcharaktchiev

Keywords: openEHR information model; openEHR archetype; openEHR server; clinical path report; semantic interoperability

Abstract:
Clinical concepts in national healthcare are usually represented employing heterogeneous information models. The existence of incompatible information models significantly complicate interoperability and management of clinical documents across a country as well as cross-border exchange of such documents. The objective of this paper is to outline a methodology for management of typical clinical concepts in the scope of Bulgarian healthcare by means of openEHR archetypes. A case study of management involving widely used clinical concepts is here considered. The clinical concepts are designed with openEHR concepts and therefore they are ready for semantic interoperability. The obtained results prove the hypothesis that existing health documents like clinical path reports can be transformed into archetype object model by preserving the semantic context. New results from computer experiments are presented and discussed in the context of providing patient- centric eHealth services.

Pages: 3 to 4

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2020

Publication date: October 25, 2020

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4553

ISBN: 978-1-61208-817-4

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from October 25, 2020 to October 29, 2020