Authors:
Tanel Sõerd
1
;
Kristian Kankainen
2
;
Gunnar Piho
1
;
Toomas Klementi
1
and
Peeter Ross
2
Affiliations:
1
Department of Software Science, TalTech, Akadeemia Str. 15A, Tallinn, Estonia
;
2
Department of Health Technologies, TalTech, Akadeemia Str. 15A, Tallinn, Estonia
Keyword(s):
Process Meta-Model, Federated Interoperability, Clinical Knowledge Modelling, Electronic Health Record, Healthcare Workflow.
Abstract:
Models of healthcare processes and workflows to support the continuity of health care are an essential research topic in medical informatics. This research topic is driven by the necessity to enable systems (including semantic) interoperability, to see the consistency of clinical data recorded in electronic health records (EHR) and to understand retrospectively the clinical pathways that led to these data. We propose a process meta-model and evaluate its usability by modelling the healthcare concepts and models from the ISO 13940 (system of concepts to support continuity of care) standard. Our meta-model is developed according to the software design patterns principles, enabling the formal specification of knowledge in a machine-readable format and preserving the history of these specifications. Our work contributes to the federated interoperability of healthcare information systems (healthcare enterprise applications), utilising executable meta-models that can map healthcare data at
the semantic (medical knowledge) level, even at run-time.
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