title: An adaptive semantic based mediation system for data interoperability among Health Information Systems.
abstract: Heterogeneity in the management of the complex medical data, obstructs the attainment of data level interoperability among Health Information Systems (HIS). This diversity is dependent on the compliance of HISs with different healthcare standards. Its solution demands a mediation system for the accurate interpretation of data in different heterogeneous formats for achieving data interoperability. We propose an adaptive AdapteR Interoperability ENgine mediation system called ARIEN, that arbitrates between HISs compliant to different healthcare standards for accurate and seamless information exchange to achieve data interoperability. ARIEN stores the semantic mapping information between different standards in the Mediation Bridge Ontology (MBO) using ontology matching techniques. These mappings are provided by our System for Parallel Heterogeneity (SPHeRe) matching system and Personalized-Detailed Clinical Model (P-DCM) approach to guarantee accuracy of mappings. The realization of the effectiveness of the mappings stored in the MBO is evaluation of the accuracy in transformation process among different standard formats. We evaluated our proposed system with the transformation process of medical records between Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) and Virtual Medical Record (vMR) standards. The transformation process achieved over 90 % of accuracy level in conversion process between CDA and vMR standards using pattern oriented approach from the MBO. The proposed mediation system improves the overall communication process between HISs. It provides an accurate and seamless medical information exchange to ensure data interoperability and timely healthcare services to patients.
authors: Department of Computer Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Seocheon-dong, Giheung-gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, 446-701, Republic of Korea, wajahat.alikhan@oslab.khu.ac.kr.
authors: Wajahat Ali
authors: WA
authors: Khan
authors: Asad Masood
authors: AM
authors: Khattak
authors: Maqbool
authors: M
authors: Hussain
authors: Muhammad Bilal
authors: MB
authors: Amin
authors: Muhammad
authors: M
authors: Afzal
authors: Christopher
authors: C
authors: Nugent
authors: Sungyoung
authors: S
authors: Lee
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical / Q000458:organization & administration; D057286:Electronic Health Records / Q000458:organization & administration; D063005:Health Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D012660:Semantics; D018511:Systems Integration