Semantic interoperability between health communication standards through formal ontologies
Oemig, F.; Blobel, B.
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 150: 200-204
2009
ISSN/ISBN: 0926-9630 PMID: 19745297 Document Number: 631873
The paper shortly analyses the HL7 communication standards for resolving the gap between them by developing a set of ontologies reflecting the concepts and relationships which is exemplified with the incompatible HL7 versions 2.x and 3. Bridging between the different ontologies is performed by introducing a reference ontology to which a mapping is defined. The paper discusses problems and solutions which appeared during the development process.