title: eHealth Terminology Management in Austria.
abstract: When it comes to establishing and operating a nationwide personal health record (PHR), effective and efficient terminology management including the development, administration, maintenance and publishing of terminologies is a precondition for semantic interoperability. In the Austrian national patient health record "ELGA" all relevant terminologies are provided and distributed by means of a CTS2-conformant terminology server. In the following article, issues and lessons learned from terminology management in a large-scale eHealth project are presented. Experience has proved the necessity of a national authority for medical terminology management in Austria.
authors: ELGA GmbH, Austria.
authors: Carina
authors: C
authors: Seerainer
authors: HL7 Austria, Austria.
authors: Stefan W
authors: SW
authors: Sabutsch
mesh_terms: D001317:Austria; D057286:Electronic Health Records / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D012660:Semantics; D017216:Telemedicine; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled