title: Use of ontologies for monitoring electronic health records for compliance with clinical practice guidelines.
abstract: Ontologies can assist with translating information from an electronic health record to a clinical practice guideline and reformatting it into a compliance report. A 2009 literature search reviews publications on the use of ontologies to support automated reporting of compliance with clinical practice guidelines via electronic health records. Research stage, data-pulling capabilities, ontologies used, and issues raised are some of the comparative data pulled from 13 articles from the literature review results. Suggestions for further research are given.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Health Informatics, School of Informatics, City University, London, UK. pamela.white.1@soi.city.ac.uk
authors.forename: Pam
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: White
authors.forename: Abdul
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Roudsari
mesh_terms: D057286:Electronic Health Records / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019983:Guideline Adherence; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled