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Barry Smith1, Werner Ceusters, Rita Temmerman

  • 1IFOMIS (Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science), Saarland University, Germany. phismith@buffalo.edu

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
|September 15, 2005
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Efforts to improve electronic health record interoperability are hindered by outdated terminology standards. A new approach focusing on real-world entities, not just concepts, can enhance coding systems and healthcare record interoperability.

Area of Science:

  • Medical Informatics
  • Health Information Systems
  • Ontology Engineering

Background:

  • Electronic health record (EHR) interoperability is crucial for modern healthcare.
  • Past efforts to improve EHR interoperability have focused on medical ontologies, terminologies, and coding systems.
  • These efforts have been significantly hampered by foundational ideas from terminology standardization work.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To survey the influential ideas of Eugen Wüster on terminology standardization.
  • To identify how Wüster's ideas contribute to confusions in the field.
  • To propose an alternative ontological approach for enhancing EHR interoperability.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review and conceptual analysis of Eugen Wüster's foundational work in terminology.

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  • Critique of Wüster's concept-centric approach to terminology.
  • Proposal of an entity-centric ontological framework for healthcare data.

    • Main Results:

    • Wüster's focus on classifying concepts in the mind creates persistent confusions.
    • These confusions impede progress in achieving true electronic health record interoperability.
    • An ontology based on classifying real-world entities offers a path to resolve these issues.

    Conclusions:

    • The prevailing concept-based approach to terminology is a barrier to EHR interoperability.
    • Rethinking ontology development to focus on real-world entities is essential.
    • An entity-centric ontology can significantly improve coding system and healthcare record interoperability.