TY - JOUR
T1 - Managing interoperability and complexity in health systems
AU - Bouamrane, M.-M.
AU - Tao, C.
AU - Sarkar, I. N.
N1 - This article is not an exact copy of the
original published article in Methods of Information in Medicine. The definitive publisher-authenticated version of Bouamrane, M-M., Tao, C., & Sarkar, I. N. (2015). Managing interoperability and complexity in health systems. Methods of Information in Medicine, 54 (1), 1-4. 10.3414/ME15-10-0001 is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.3414/ME15-10-0001.
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - In recent years, we have witnessed substantial progress in the use of clinical informatics systems to support clinicians during episodes of care, manage specialised domain knowledge, perform complex clinical data analysis and improve the management of health organisations’ resources. However, the vision of fully integrated health information eco-systems, which provide relevant information and useful knowledge at the point-of-care, remains elusive. This journal Focus Theme reviews some of the enduring challenges of interoperability and complexity in clinical informatics systems. Furthermore, a range of approaches are proposed in order to address, harness and resolve some of the many remaining issues towards a greater integration of health information systems and extraction of useful or new knowledge from heterogeneous electronic data repositories.
AB - In recent years, we have witnessed substantial progress in the use of clinical informatics systems to support clinicians during episodes of care, manage specialised domain knowledge, perform complex clinical data analysis and improve the management of health organisations’ resources. However, the vision of fully integrated health information eco-systems, which provide relevant information and useful knowledge at the point-of-care, remains elusive. This journal Focus Theme reviews some of the enduring challenges of interoperability and complexity in clinical informatics systems. Furthermore, a range of approaches are proposed in order to address, harness and resolve some of the many remaining issues towards a greater integration of health information systems and extraction of useful or new knowledge from heterogeneous electronic data repositories.
KW - medical informatics
KW - biological ontologie
KW - systematized nomenclature of medicine
KW - health information management
KW - knowledge bases
KW - information storage
KW - information retrieval
KW - systems integration
KW - medical classification
UR - http://www.schattauer.de/index.php?id=5236&mid=23885
UR - http://methods.schattauer.de/en/contents/archivestandard/issue/2168/manuscript/23885/show.html
U2 - 10.3414/ME15-10-0001
DO - 10.3414/ME15-10-0001
M3 - Article
SN - 0026-1270
VL - 54
SP - 1
EP - 4
JO - Methods of Information in Medicine
JF - Methods of Information in Medicine
IS - 1
ER -