Medical Data Integration with SNOMED-CT and HL7

Data integration of medical information to be stored in EMR, HER and/or PHR is a challenging issue, especially for the sensitive nature of such data. Here we present a simple tool for medical data integration for semi-structured sources (as healthcare provider websites); to cope with semantics, SNOMED-CT clinical terminology is exploited. Final results are formatted according to the HL7 standard to facilitate further integration.

[1]  Joanna F Dipnall,et al.  Data Integration Protocol In Ten-steps (DIPIT): a new standard for medical researchers. , 2014, Methods.

[2]  Amit P. Sheth,et al.  Active Semantic Electronic Medical Record , 2006, SEMWEB.

[3]  Reinhold Haux,et al.  Health information systems - past, present, future , 2006, Int. J. Medical Informatics.

[4]  Betsy L. Humphreys,et al.  Technical Milestone: The Unified Medical Language System: An Informatics Research Collaboration , 1998, J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc..

[5]  Bernd Blobel,et al.  A development framework for semantically interoperable health information systems , 2009, Int. J. Medical Informatics.

[6]  Peter L. Reichertz,et al.  Hospital information systems - Past, present, future , 2006, Int. J. Medical Informatics.

[7]  Miguel García-Remesal,et al.  ONTOFUSION: Ontology-based integration of genomic and clinical databases , 2006, Comput. Biol. Medicine.

[8]  Jamie L. Habib,et al.  EHRs, Meaningful Use, and a Model EMR , 2010 .

[9]  Steffen Staab,et al.  International Handbooks on Information Systems , 2013 .

[10]  Hermann A. Maurer,et al.  Towards the integration of images on the Web , 2013, IIWAS '13.

[11]  Juha Puustjärvi,et al.  Ontology-based integration of clinical documents , 2012, IIWAS '12.

[12]  G W Beeler,et al.  HL7 version 3--an object-oriented methodology for collaborative standards development. , 1998, International journal of medical informatics.

[13]  Yugyung Lee,et al.  Semantic enrichment for medical ontologies , 2006, J. Biomed. Informatics.

[14]  Alon Y. Halevy,et al.  Semantic Integration Research in the Database Community : A Brief Survey , 2005 .