ONTOLOGIES AND THEIR APPLICATION IN ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS Grabenweger

When sharing Electronic Health Records (EHRs) between different institutions, interoperability of the individual local records becomes a necessity. Ontologies represent one technology that can contribute to this goal. In a master thesis, which is currently a work in progress, the application of ontologies to achieve EHR interoperability will be examined by analyzing the different approaches of their practical use published to date. This paper gives a short overview over those plans.

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