A reusable ontology for primitive and complex HL7 FHIR data types.
| Title | A reusable ontology for primitive and complex HL7 FHIR data types. |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2015 |
| Authors | Beredimas, N., Kilintzis V., Chouvarda I., & Maglaveras N. |
| Journal | Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc |
| Volume | 2015 |
| Pagination | 2547-50 |
| Date Published | 2015 |
| ISSN | 1557-170X |
| Keywords | Biological Ontologies, Databases, Factual, Electronic Health Records, Humans, Reproducibility of Results, Semantics |
| Abstract | HL7(®) FHIR(®) standard is a new standard aiming to offer more flexible interoperability mechanisms. We present a stand-alone RDF vocabulary as an OWL ontology that defines the primitive and complex data types of the FHIR framework, alongside their validation rules. We address the non-trivial questions of representing FHIR data types as RDF/OWL constructs in a coherent and complete manner. The proposed ontology can be used as a basic framework, where the complexity of a FHIR-based EHR is not required, while still maintaining semantic cohesion with an industry-based standard. It can also be the base for a complete representation of FHIR model as an ontology. |
| DOI | 10.1109/EMBC.2015.7318911 |
| Alternate Journal | Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc |
| PubMed ID | 26736811 |
