title: Ensuring HL7-based information model requirements within an ontology framework.
abstract: This paper describes the building of an HL7-based Information Model Ontology (IMO) that can be exploited by a domain ontology in order to distribute querying over different clinical data repositories. We employed the Open Medical Development Framework (OMDF) based on a model driven development methodology. OMDF provides model transformation features to build an HL7-based information model that covers the conceptual scope of a target project. The resulting IMO is used to mediate between ontologically queries and information retrieval from semantically less defined Hospital Information Systems (HIS). In the context of the DebugIT project - which scope corresponds to the control of infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistances - Information Model Ontology is integrated to the DebugIT domain ontology in order to express queries.
authors.affiliation: Université René Descartes, Paris, F-75006 France. david.ouagne@crc.jussieu.fr
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ouagne
authors.forename: Nadia
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nadah
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Schober
authors.forename: Rémy
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Choquet
authors.forename: Douglas
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Teodoro
authors.forename: Dirk
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Colaert
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schulz
authors.forename: Marie-Christine
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Jaulent
authors.forename: Christel
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Daniel
mesh_terms: D003140:Communicable Disease Control / Q000379:methods; D004352:Drug Resistance, Microbial; D057208:Health Level Seven; D006751:Hospital Information Systems / Q000592:standards*; D018511:Systems Integration