Semantic interoperability between health communication standards through formal ontologies.
The paper shortly analyses the HL7 communication standards for resolving the gap between them by developing a set of ontologies reflecting the concepts and relationships which is exemplified with the incompatible HL7 versions 2.x and 3. Bridging between the different ontologies is performed by introducing a reference ontology to which a mapping is defined. The paper discusses problems and solutions which appeared during the development process.
Oemig
Frank
F
Agfa HealthCare GmbH, D-53227 Bonn, Germany. Frank@Oemig.de
Blobel
Bernd
B
D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000592:standards*; D008490:Medical Informatics; D012660:Semantics; D018511:Systems Integration