Standardization of discharge reports with the ISO 13606 norm

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has recently approved a new standard for the communication and semantic interoperability of electronic health record extracts. This standard is based on a dual model architecture, where a simple and generic reference model is defined for the r...

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Published in:2008 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society 2008-01, p.1470-1473
Main Authors: Moner, David, Maldonado, Jose A., Angulo, Carlos, Bosca, Diego, Perez, Daniel, Abad, Irene, Reig, Ernesto, Robles, Montserrat
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Language:English
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Summary:The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has recently approved a new standard for the communication and semantic interoperability of electronic health record extracts. This standard is based on a dual model architecture, where a simple and generic reference model is defined for the representation of data and an archetype model is used for the representation of complex domain concepts of the electronic health record. By using this standard and a tool called LinkEHR-Ed, we have defined different types of hospital discharge reports in the form of archetypes and then we have normalized automatically discharge reports instances in a real environment following those archetype definitions. This work proves that it is possible to standardize legacy data automatically and enrich them with a semantic information layer by using archetypes as an integration and standardization mechanism.
ISSN:1094-687X
1558-4615
DOI:10.1109/IEMBS.2008.4649445