title: The role of ontologies for sustainable, semantically interoperable and trustworthy EHR solutions.
abstract: As health systems around the world turn towards highly distributed, specialized and cooperative structures to increase quality and safety of care as well as efficiency and efficacy of delivery processes, there is a growing need for supporting communication and collaboration of all parties involved with advanced ICT solutions. The Electronic Health Record (EHR) provides the information platform which is maturing towards the eHealth core application. To meet the requirements for sustainable, semantically interoperable, and trustworthy EHR solutions, different standards and different national strategies have been established. The workshop summarizes the requirements for such advanced EHR systems and their underlying architecture, presents different strategies and solutions advocated by corresponding protagonists, discusses pros and cons as well as harmonization and migration strategies for those approaches. It particularly highlights a turn towards ontology-driven architectures. The workshop is a joint activity of the EFMI Working Groups "Electronic Health Records" and "Security, Safety and Ethics".
authors.affiliation: eHealth Competence Center, Regensburg University Hospital, D-93042 Regensburg, Germany. bernd.blobel@klinik.uni-regensburg.de
authors.forename: Bernd
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Blobel
authors.forename: Dipak
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kalra
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Koehn
authors.forename: Ken
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lunn
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pharow
authors.forename: Pekka
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ruotsalainen
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schulz
authors.forename: Barry
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D004493:Education; D008498:Medical Record Linkage; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000592:standards*; D012660:Semantics