TY - GEN
T1 - Providing technical and semantic interoperability for integrated healthcare using an IHE-compliant system
AU - Traxler, Barbara
AU - Mayr, Herwig
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2012 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Integrated, round-the-clock patient care is becoming one of the key topics for IT applications in eHealth. This paper discusses how to achieve technical as well as semantic interoperability for integrated healthcare. Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) plays an important role. The worldwide initiative IHE aims to optimize the interoperability of IT Systems in medicine and healthcare, using international standards. Documents, based on the Health Level Seven Clinical Document Architecture (HL7 CDA) standard, which can be electronically exchanged between healthcare systems, represent an integral part in a comprehensive solution. Since uniform semantic standards are only used rudimentarily in these documents it is seldom possible to directly compare, check (on plausibility, correctness and completeness) or integrate document content. Such integration is only possible in consideration of semantics and domain specific differences. An example for efficient data exchange using an IHE-compliant system is presented.
AB - Integrated, round-the-clock patient care is becoming one of the key topics for IT applications in eHealth. This paper discusses how to achieve technical as well as semantic interoperability for integrated healthcare. Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) plays an important role. The worldwide initiative IHE aims to optimize the interoperability of IT Systems in medicine and healthcare, using international standards. Documents, based on the Health Level Seven Clinical Document Architecture (HL7 CDA) standard, which can be electronically exchanged between healthcare systems, represent an integral part in a comprehensive solution. Since uniform semantic standards are only used rudimentarily in these documents it is seldom possible to directly compare, check (on plausibility, correctness and completeness) or integrate document content. Such integration is only possible in consideration of semantics and domain specific differences. An example for efficient data exchange using an IHE-compliant system is presented.
KW - Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise
KW - Semantic interoperability
KW - Technical interoperability
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M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9789728939496
T3 - Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference e-Health 2011, Part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 2011, MCCSIS 2011
SP - 237
EP - 240
BT - Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference e-Health 2011, Part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 2011, MCCSIS 2011
T2 - IADIS International Conference e-Health 2011, Part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 2011, MCCSIS 2011
Y2 - 20 July 2011 through 22 July 2011
ER -