Interoperability Among Prenatal EHRs: A Formal Ontology Approach

Gathering information from EHRs connected to different information systems is a challenge and involves the adoption of interoperability solutions. To overcome this interoperability failure among prenatal EHRs our strategy is to develop an ontology in the obstetric and neonatal domain (OntONeo ). Such ontology will be able to join different standards and terminologies adopted by information systems that deal with prenatal EHRs. OntONeo has the potential to contribute to interoperability of information among EHR from different specialties. In addition, the definitions of OntONeo will facilitate the understanding of how information can be organized in EHRs for purposes of healthcare.