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Representing knowledge via building an ontology for healthcare messages is important to achieve semantic interoperability among healthcare information systems and to better execute decision-support systems. HL7, an ANSI-accredited developing organization, developed the most widely-used messaging standard in healthcare information systems. This messaging standard, in its version 3, is based on an object-oriented model called the Reference Information Model (RIM). In this paper, a description logic-based ontology in Web Ontology Language for HL7-RIM is proposed. This proposed ontology is used to instantiate medical records written in HL7, and also has been used to reason a sample medical rule. The evaluation results show that the ontology can capture necessary clinical information elements and can be used successfully by decision-support systems.
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Iqbal, A.M. (2011). An OWL-DL Ontology for the HL7 Reference Information Model. In: Abdulrazak, B., Giroux, S., Bouchard, B., Pigot, H., Mokhtari, M. (eds) Toward Useful Services for Elderly and People with Disabilities. ICOST 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6719. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21535-3_22
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