Title |
Semantic validation of the use of SNOMED CT in HL7 clinical documents
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Published in |
Journal of Biomedical Semantics, July 2011
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DOI | 10.1186/2041-1480-2-2 |
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Authors |
Stijn Heymans, Matthew McKennirey, Joshua Phillips |
Abstract |
The HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) constrains the HL7 Reference Information model (RIM) to specify the format of HL7-compliant clinical documents, dubbed CDA documents. The use of clinical terminologies such as SNOMED CT® further improves interoperability as they provide a shared understanding of concepts used in clinical documents. However, despite the use of the RIM and of shared terminologies such as SNOMED CT®, gaps remain as to how to use both the RIM and SNOMED CT® in HL7 clinical documents. The HL7 implementation guide on Using SNOMED CT in HL7 Version 3 is an effort to close this gap. It is, however, a human-readable document that is not suited for automatic processing. As such, health care professionals designing clinical documents need to ensure validity of documents manually. |
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Germany | 2 | 3% |
Netherlands | 2 | 3% |
United Kingdom | 2 | 3% |
United States | 2 | 3% |
Belgium | 2 | 3% |
Australia | 1 | 1% |
Portugal | 1 | 1% |
Switzerland | 1 | 1% |
Unknown | 62 | 83% |
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Student > Ph. D. Student | 15 | 20% |
Student > Master | 12 | 16% |
Researcher | 11 | 15% |
Student > Bachelor | 6 | 8% |
Other | 5 | 7% |
Other | 18 | 24% |
Unknown | 8 | 11% |
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Computer Science | 26 | 35% |
Medicine and Dentistry | 23 | 31% |
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 5 | 7% |
Psychology | 2 | 3% |
Engineering | 2 | 3% |
Other | 6 | 8% |
Unknown | 11 | 15% |