A reusable ontology for primitive and complex HL7 FHIR data types. Beredimas, N., Kilintzis, V., Chouvarda, I., & Maglaveras, N. Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS, 2015-Novem:2547–2550, nov, 2015.
doi  abstract   bibtex   
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.
@article{bkcm15,
abstract = {HL7{\textregistered} FHIR{\textregistered} 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.},
author = {Beredimas, Nikolaos and Kilintzis, Vassilis and Chouvarda, Ioanna and Maglaveras, Nicos},
doi = {10.1109/EMBC.2015.7318911},
isbn = {9781424492718},
issn = {1557170X},
journal = {Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS},
month = {nov},
pages = {2547--2550},
pmid = {26736811},
title = {{A reusable ontology for primitive and complex HL7 FHIR data types}},
volume = {2015-Novem},
year = {2015}
}

Downloads: 0