Title :
A reusable ontology for primitive and complex HL7 FHIR data types
Author :
Nikolaos Beredimas;Vassilis Kilintzis;Ioanna Chouvarda;Nicos Maglaveras
Author_Institution :
Laboratory of Medical Informatics, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124, Greece
Abstract :
HL7® FHIR® standard is a new standard aiming to offer more flexible interoperability mechanisms. We present a stand-alone RDF vocabulary as an OWL ontology that defines the primitive and complex data types of the FHIR framework, alongside their validation rules. We address the non-trivial questions of representing FHIR data types as RDF/OWL constructs in a coherent and complete manner. The proposed ontology can be used as a basic framework, where the complexity of a FHIR-based EHR is not required, while still maintaining semantic cohesion with an industrybased standard. It can also be the base for a complete representation of FHIR model as an ontology.
Keywords :
"Resource description framework","Ontologies","OWL","Standards","XML","Vocabulary","Context"
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Electronic_ISBN :
1558-4615
DOI :
10.1109/EMBC.2015.7318911
