title: Semantic interoperability between health communication standards through formal ontologies.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Agfa HealthCare GmbH, D-53227 Bonn, Germany. Frank@Oemig.de
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Oemig
authors.forename: Bernd
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Blobel
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000592:standards*; D008490:Medical Informatics; D012660:Semantics; D018511:Systems Integration