TY - JOUR
T1 - Clinical terminologies
T2 - A solution for semantic interoperability
AU - Park, Hyeoun
AU - Hardiker, Nicholas
PY - 2009/3
Y1 - 2009/3
N2 - To realize the benefits of electronic health records, electronic health record information needs to be shared seamlessly and meaningfully. Clinical terminology systems, one of the current semantic interoperability solutions, were reviewed in this article. Definition, types, brief history, and examples of clinical terminologieswere introduced along with phases of clinical terminology use and issues on clinical terminology use in electronic health records. Other attempts to standardize the capture, representation and communication of clinical data were also discussed briefly with future needs.
AB - To realize the benefits of electronic health records, electronic health record information needs to be shared seamlessly and meaningfully. Clinical terminology systems, one of the current semantic interoperability solutions, were reviewed in this article. Definition, types, brief history, and examples of clinical terminologieswere introduced along with phases of clinical terminology use and issues on clinical terminology use in electronic health records. Other attempts to standardize the capture, representation and communication of clinical data were also discussed briefly with future needs.
KW - Semantic Interoperability
KW - Electronic Health Record
KW - Clinical Terminology
KW - Reference Terminology
KW - Interface Terminology
U2 - 10.4258/jksmi.2009.15.1.1
DO - 10.4258/jksmi.2009.15.1.1
M3 - Review article
VL - 15
JO - Journal of Korean Society of Medical Informatics
JF - Journal of Korean Society of Medical Informatics
IS - 1
ER -