One of the challenges faced nowadays by the healthcare industry is semantic interoperability. It is the ability of a healthcare system to share information and have that information properly interpreted by the receiving system in the same sense as intended by the transmitting system. Semantic Web (aka Web 3.0) provides the enabling technologies to achieve semantic interoperability. Web Services...

We discuss approaches to semantic heterogeneity and propose a formalisation of semantic interoperability based on the BarwiseSeligman theory of information flow. We argue for a theoretical framework that favours the analysis and implementation of semantic interoperability scenarios relative to particular understandings of semantics. We present an example case of such a scenario where our framew...

BACKGROUND Clinical data registry is designed to collect and manage information about the practices and outcomes of a patient population for improving the quality and safety of care and facilitating novel researches. Semantic interoperability is a challenge when integrating the data from more than one clinical data registry. The openEHR approach can represent the information and knowledge seman...

Semantic interoperability of clinical standards is a major challenge in the eHealth across Europe, because this would allow healthcare professionals to manage the complete EHR of patient. Archetypes are considered a cornerstone to deliver fully interoperable EHRs. Our work is focused on the development of ontology-based methods and techniques for providing semantic interoperability between di e...