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As it is known to all, there is an imperative need for electronic transfer of healthcare information (patients’ records, laboratory analyses, medical images…) between healthcare organizations to improve the quality level they are offering. However, medical information systems in each organization are different from each other. These different systems compose a heterogeneous, distributed system with high complexity: there are a large number of healthcare related applications that support specific needs effectively but are isolated or incompatible. Thus medical information systems’ interoperability constitutes one of the main challenges of the IT society. Semantic interoperability in healthcare is important especially when all the varying types of data need to interact. Presented in this paper are the most relevant works to our knowledge, dealing with interoperability in medical information systems and a comparative study between the new proposed approaches and research trends to resolve heterogeneity issues.
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Abbreviations
- CED::
-
clinical electronic documents
- DICOM::
-
Digital Imaging and COMmunication in medecine
- EHR::
-
Electronic Health Record
- HL7::
-
Health Level 7
- HSB::
-
Health Service Bus
- LOINC::
-
Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes
- MIS::
-
Medical Information System
- MRI::
-
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- OaaS::
-
Ontology as a Service
- OLS::
-
Ontology Lookup Service (OLS)
- PACS::
-
Picture Archiving and Communication System
- RELMATM::
-
Regenstrief LOINC Mapping Assistant
- SNOMED:
-
CT: Systematised Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms
- SOA::
-
Software Oriented Architecture
- SWS::
-
Semantic Web Services
- VPN::
-
Virtual Private Network
- P2P::
-
Peer-to-Peer
- WWP::
-
Web Workflow Peer
- WWPD::
-
Web Workflow Peer Directory
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Hammami, R., Bellaaj, H. & Hadj Kacem, A. Interoperability for medical information systems: an overview. Health Technol. 4, 261–272 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12553-014-0085-8
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