title: Information models for data sharing.
abstract: How to share/exchange data among different databases is still a critical issue. In the medical domain, there is an absolute need for national/international agreement on standard ontologies, terminologies and data models. A global solution is far from being achieved, but in the meantime there are a number of sub-optimal solutions that can be adopted. In this paper two of them, which have already provided, or are close to providing, practical implementations will be described.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, University of Pavia, Italy. silvana.quaglini@unipv.it
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Quaglini
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003628:Database Management Systems; D016208:Databases, Factual / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000379:methods*; D008498:Medical Record Linkage / Q000379:methods*; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized