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The Value of Clinical Information Models and Terminology for Sharing Clinical Information

Authors:
Rune Pedersen
Conceição Granja
Luis Marco Ruis

Keywords: eHealth medical records; electronic health records; web technology; e-health; interoperability; semantics; integrated care; OpenEHR; terminology; classification systems

Abstract:
This paper reports from the national strategy for OpenEHR adoption in Northern Norway Regional Health Authority encouraged by the unfolding of a national repository for OpenEHR archetypes and a national initiative to integrate clinical terminologies. The paper contributes to a qualitative longitudinal interpretive study with an effort to increase the possibility to obtain semantic interoperability (towards integrated care) and discusses SNOMED-CT and other relevant clinical terminology and Clinical Information Models (CIMs) such as OpenEHR archetypes. Terminology and archetypes are used to structure the EPR two-folded, and we discuss a general use of information models to increase interoperability extensively. A two-folded use of terminology where terminology is integrated in archetypes, or where terminology is used to structure the EPR system while using the hierarchical model of the terminology is discussed. Secondly, we discuss for what purpose OpenEHR is the choice of CIM to succeed in Norwegian healthcare.

Pages: 153 to 159

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016

Publication date: April 24, 2016

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4359

ISBN: 978-1-61208-470-1

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from April 24, 2016 to April 28, 2016