Clinical decision-support systems (CDSSs) comprise systems as diverse as sophisticated
platforms to store and manage clinical data, tools to alert clinicians of problematic situations …

Objectives The objective is to introduce'clinical archetype'which is a formal and agreed way
of representing clinical information to ensure interoperability across and within Electronic …

Formal modeling of clinical content that can be made available internationally is one of the
most promising pathways to semantic interoperability of health information. Drawing on the …

PURPOSE: The purpose of this paper is to analyse the feasibility and usefulness of
expressing clinical data sets (CDSs) as openEHR archetypes. For this, we present an …

The advent of electronic healthcare records (EHR) systems has triggered the need for their
semantic interoperability, which is reinforced by the opportunities for the secondary use of …

Semantic interoperability is essential to facilitate the computerized support for alerts,
workflow management and evidence-based healthcare across heterogeneous electronic …

Abstract Background The Archetype formalism and the associated Archetype Definition
Language have been proposed as an ISO standard for specifying models of components of …

OBJECTIVE: The ISO/EN 13606 Electronic Health Record architecture standard permits
semantically interoperable exchange of Electronic Health Record data by using archetypes …

The life-long clinical information of any person supported by electronic means configures his
Electronic Health Record (EHR). This information is usually distributed among several …

One of the basic needs for any healthcare professional is to be able to access to clinical
information of patients in an understandable and normalized way. The life-long clinical …