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Ron Rudnicki1, Werner Ceusters, Shahid Manzoor
1Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, University at Buffalo, NY, USA.
Abstract:
Referent Tracking (RT) advocates the use of instance unique identifiers to refer to the entities comprising the subject matter of patient health records. RT promises many benefits to those who use health record data to improve patient care. To further the adoption of the paradigm we provide an illustration of how data from an EHR application needs to be decomposed in order to make it accord with the tenets of RT. We describe the ontological principles on which this decomposition is based in order to allow integration efforts to be applied in similar ways to other EHR applications. We find that an ordinary statement from an EHR contains a surprising amount of "hidden" data that are only revealed by its decomposition according to these principles.
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