Lim Choi Keung Sarah N, Ogunsina Ire, Rossiter James, Langford Gavin, Tyler Edward, Arvanitis Theodoros N
University of Birmingham, UK.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2012;180:529-33.
Interoperability and reuse of healthcare information, for patient care and clinical research, rely on standardised approaches in its representation. The medical domain is rich with terminologies and dictionaries to support the representation of clinical data, but these are not necessarily interoperable. Secondary care research has long been conducted with study-specific requirements, and the valuable information collected was, however, difficult to reuse and share due to incomplete data collection and its non-standard representation. As a way to resolve some of these issues, we are designing and building sustainable database applications that clinicians and researchers alike can use as research registries, with the main aim to have research-quality healthcare information for future research studies and trials. This paper looks at a case study of how these applications are being developed in Central England through the use of controlled vocabularies. Specialty teams are keen to improve the interoperability, sharing and reuse of health information within and across specialties.
医疗保健信息的互操作性和重用性，无论是用于患者护理还是临床研究，都依赖于其标准化的表示方法。医学领域有丰富的术语和词典来支持临床数据的表示，但这些不一定是可互操作的。长期以来，二级医疗保健研究都是根据特定研究的要求进行的，然而，由于数据收集不完整及其非标准表示，所收集的有价值信息很难重用和共享。作为解决其中一些问题的一种方法，我们正在设计和构建可持续的数据库应用程序，临床医生和研究人员都可以将其用作研究注册库，主要目的是为未来的研究和试验提供具有研究质量的医疗保健信息。本文通过一个案例研究，探讨了如何在英格兰中部通过使用受控词汇表来开发这些应用程序。专业团队渴望提高各专业内部和跨专业的健康信息的互操作性、共享性和重用性。
