TOWARD THE UNIVERSAL ELECTRONIC HEALTHCARE RECORD (EHR)

AN ONTOLOGY FOR THE EHR

One of the greater problems in obtaining the universal EHR of a patient, with all his medical information, is the heterogeneity of information systems. So the EHR must be developed within the framework of a federated information system

In order to share the knowledge between the different systems from the federation the development of a federated ontology is essential

This ontology is based on the work of openEHR. Each file corresponds to a reference model and all are written in OWL ontology language using Protege as editor. Relations between them are based on namespaces capabilities.

One of the great benefits of the use of ontologies is the reusability and the continuous improvement of these. Please if you are going to use this ontology or you have some commentary to improve it write me to:

E-Mail: isabel@trajano.us.es

All the commentaries will be well received and valued

The ontology files:

Support Reference Model

Data Types Reference Model

Common Reference Model

Data Structures Reference Model

Demographic Reference Model

EHR EXTRACT Reference Model

EHR Reference Model

Thanks for your collaboration

Isabel Román