Informatics for Health: Connected Citizen-Led Wellness and Population Health

Mie Andersen, Vestergaard, Ida Kristensen, Hvass, Malene Larsen, Møller, Claus Pedersen, Hougaard, Kirstine Gøeg, Rosenbeck, Louise Pape-Haugaard, M Andersen (+11 others)
2017 Studies in Health Technology and Informatics   unpublished
Achieving interoperability in health is a challenge and requires standardization. The newly developed HL7 standard: Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) promises both flexibility and interoperability. This study investigates the feasibility of expressing a Danish microbiology message model content in FHIR to explore whether complex in-use legacy models can be migrated and what challenges this may pose. The Danish microbiology message model (the DMM) is used as a case to illustrate
more » ... hallenges and opportunities accosted with applying the FHIR standard. Mapping of content from DMM to FHIR was done as close as possible to the DMM to minimize migration costs except when the structure of the content did not fit into FHIR. From the DMM a total of 183 elements were mapped to FHIR. 75 (40.9%) elements were modeled as existing FHIR elements and 96 (52.5%) elements were modeled as extensions and 12 (6.6%) elements were deemed unnecessary because of build-in FHIR characteristics. In this study, it was possible to represent the content of a Danish message model using HL7 FHIR.
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