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Laura Tetzlaff¹, Anne-Maria Purohit¹, Jacob Spallek²

¹Department of Informatics und Media, Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences, Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany.

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Patient safety reporting systems in Germany lack interoperability, hindering error analysis. Improving data sharing through unified models and standardized terminology is crucial for patient safety.

Keywords:

CIRS Interoperability SNOMED CT semantic syntactic

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Background:

Hospitalization leads to patient harm in 10% of cases in industrialized nations.
Critical Incident Reporting Systems (CIRS) are vital for learning from medical errors and identifying risks.
Fragmented systems across Germany limit the effectiveness of CIRS.

Purpose of the Study:

To assess syntactic and semantic interoperability of reports across seven German CIRS.
To identify barriers to effective data exchange and analysis within patient safety systems.

Main Methods:

Syntactic interoperability analysis using WHO's Minimal Information Models (MIM).
Semantic interoperability evaluation via SNOMED CT concept mapping.
Cross-system comparison of report structures and terminology.

Main Results:

Low structural overlap found between reporting systems.
Only two terms were correctly mapped to SNOMED CT.
Most systems demonstrated a lack of syntactic interoperability.

Conclusions:

Enhanced interoperability is key to improving CIRS effectiveness and usability.
Recommendations include adopting unified data models (MIM, HL7 FHIR) and expanding SNOMED CT.
A dedicated patient safety ontology is proposed for efficient critical incident analysis.