Towards Specification of Medical Processes According to International Standards and Semantic Interoperability Needs

Tanel Sõerd, Kristian Kankainen, Gunnar Piho, Toomas Klementi, Peeter Ross

2023

Abstract

Models of healthcare processes and workflows to support the continuity of health care are an essential research topic in medical informatics. This research topic is driven by the necessity to enable systems (including semantic) interoperability, to see the consistency of clinical data recorded in electronic health records (EHR) and to understand retrospectively the clinical pathways that led to these data. We propose a process meta-model and evaluate its usability by modelling the healthcare concepts and models from the ISO 13940 (system of concepts to support continuity of care) standard. Our meta-model is developed according to the software design patterns principles, enabling the formal specification of knowledge in a machine-readable format and preserving the history of these specifications. Our work contributes to the federated interoperability of healthcare information systems (healthcare enterprise applications), utilising executable meta-models that can map healthcare data at the semantic (medical knowledge) level, even at run-time.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Sõerd T., Kankainen K., Piho G., Klementi T. and Ross P. (2023). Towards Specification of Medical Processes According to International Standards and Semantic Interoperability Needs. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Model-Based Software and Systems Engineering - Volume 1: MODELSWARD, ISBN 978-989-758-633-0, pages 160-167. DOI: 10.5220/0011687900003402

in Bibtex Style

@conference{modelsward23,
author={Tanel Sõerd and Kristian Kankainen and Gunnar Piho and Toomas Klementi and Peeter Ross},
title={Towards Specification of Medical Processes According to International Standards and Semantic Interoperability Needs},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Model-Based Software and Systems Engineering - Volume 1: MODELSWARD,},
year={2023},
pages={160-167},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011687900003402},
isbn={978-989-758-633-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Model-Based Software and Systems Engineering - Volume 1: MODELSWARD,
TI - Towards Specification of Medical Processes According to International Standards and Semantic Interoperability Needs
SN - 978-989-758-633-0
AU - Sõerd T.
AU - Kankainen K.
AU - Piho G.
AU - Klementi T.
AU - Ross P.
PY - 2023
SP - 160
EP - 167
DO - 10.5220/0011687900003402