A FHIR-based System for the Generation and Retrieval of Clinical Documents

Crescenzo Diomaiuta, Mario Sicuranza, Mario Ciampi, Giuseppe De Pietro

2017

Abstract

Clinical information exchange among heterogeneous systems is a complex process. It is necessary to use dictionaries, coding standards (e.g. LOINC and SNOMED), and terminology services, in order to: i) produce machine-interpretable information and coded data, ii) reduce information exchange complexity, and iii) allow the fulfillment of semantic interoperability among several systems. This work presents a system to support healthcare professionals in the creation of clinical documents using appropriate standards and in the information reading and retrieval of interest on clinical documents. The system allows healthcare professionals to use standard codes easily (via terminology server) during the creation of documents. Similarly, it also permits the decoding of health standard codes, during the read documents process, to facilitate the obtaining of information. In summary, it makes use of a simple and intuitive graphical user interface and a Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) terminology server to support healthcare professionals in diagnosing and treating patients.

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Diomaiuta C., Sicuranza M., Ciampi M. and De Pietro G. (2017). A FHIR-based System for the Generation and Retrieval of Clinical Documents . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - Volume 1: ICT4AWE, ISBN 978-989-758-251-6, pages 135-142. DOI: 10.5220/0006311301350142


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@conference{ict4awe17,
author={Crescenzo Diomaiuta and Mario Sicuranza and Mario Ciampi and Giuseppe De Pietro},
title={A FHIR-based System for the Generation and Retrieval of Clinical Documents},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - Volume 1: ICT4AWE,},
year={2017},
pages={135-142},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006311301350142},
isbn={978-989-758-251-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - Volume 1: ICT4AWE,
TI - A FHIR-based System for the Generation and Retrieval of Clinical Documents
SN - 978-989-758-251-6
AU - Diomaiuta C.
AU - Sicuranza M.
AU - Ciampi M.
AU - De Pietro G.
PY - 2017
SP - 135
EP - 142
DO - 10.5220/0006311301350142