Validation of the openEHR archetype library by using OWL reasoning

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2011:169:789-93.

Abstract

Electronic Health Record architectures based on the dual model architecture use archetypes for representing clinical knowledge. Therefore, ensuring their correctness and consistency is a fundamental research goal. In this work, we explore how an approach based on OWL technologies can be used for such purpose. This method has been applied to the openEHR archetype repository, which is the largest available one nowadays. The results of this validation are also reported in this study.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Electronic Health Records*
  • Humans
  • Internet
  • Medical Informatics / methods*
  • Medical Record Linkage / standards*
  • Medical Records Systems, Computerized
  • Programming Languages
  • Quality Assurance, Health Care
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Semantics
  • Software
  • Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine
  • Systems Integration