Semantic Interoperability between Health Communication Standards through Formal Ontologies
Frank Oemig, Bernd G M E Blobel · Studies in health technology and informatics · 2009
The paper shortly analyses the HL7 communication standards for resolving the gap between them by developing a set of ontologies reflecting the concepts and relationships which is exemplified with the incompatible HL7 versions 2.x and 3. Bridging between the different ontologies is performed by introducing a reference ontology to which a mapping is defined. The paper discusses problems and solutions which appeared during the development process.