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ArticleStandards (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Improving the Quality and Utility of Electronic Health Record Data through Ontologies.

Asiyah Yu Lin, Sivaram Arabandi, Thomas Beale, William D Duncan, Amanda Hicks, William R Hogan, Mark Jensen, Ross Koppel, Catalina Martínez-Costa, Øystein Nytrø and 8 more

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Article in Standards (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

18 authors.

Asiyah Yu LinNational Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Sivaram ArabandiONTOPRO, Houston, TX 77025, USA.
Thomas BealeArs Semantica Ltd., London W4 1PQ, UK.
William D DuncanCollege of Dentistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9625-1899
Amanda HicksThe Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD 20723, USA.
William R HoganData Science Institute, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA.
Mark JensenCUBRC Inc., Buffalo, NY 14225, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9228-8838
Ross KoppelDepartment of Medical Informatics, Jacobs School of Medicine, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA.
Catalina Martínez-CostaDepartment of Informatics and Systems, Faculty of Computer Science, University of Murcia, 30100 Murcia, Spain.
Øystein NytrøDepartment of Computer Science, UIT Arctic University of Norway, 9037 Tromsø, Norway.
Jihad S ObeidDepartment of Public Health Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7193-7779
Jose Parente de OliveiraAeronautics Institute of Technology, São José dos Campos 12228-900, Brazil.
Alan RuttenbergSchool of Dental Medicine, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1604-3078
Selja SeppäläDepartment of Business Information Systems, University College Cork, T12 K8AF Cork, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0002-0791-1347
Barry SmithDepartment of Philosophy, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA.
Dagobert SoergelDepartment of Philosophy, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5806-2384
Jie ZhengUnit for Laboratory Animal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2999-0103
Stefan SchulzInstitute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, 8036 Graz, Austria.ORCID 0000-0001-7222-3287

Funding

University of Buffalo Clinical and Translational Science Institute - Supplement SchulyerUL1TR001412 · NCATS · STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO · PI MURPHY, TIMOTHY F · 2015 to 2024
$33.8M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001412
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The translational research community, in general, and the Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) community, in particular, share the vision of repurposing EHRs for research that will improve the quality of clinical practice. Many members of these communities are also aware that electronic health records (EHRs) suffer limitations of data becoming poorly structured, biased, and unusable out of original context. This creates obstacles to the continuity of care, utility, quality improvement, and translational research. Analogous limitations to sharing objective data in other areas of the natural sciences have been successfully overcome by developing and using common ontologies. This White Paper presents the authors' rationale for the use of ontologies with computable semantics for the improvement of clinical data quality and EHR usability formulated for researchers with a stake in clinical and translational science and who are advocates for the use of information technology in medicine but at the same time are concerned by current major shortfalls. This White Paper outlines pitfalls, opportunities, and solutions and recommends increased investment in research and development of ontologies with computable semantics for a new generation of EHRs.

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biomedical informaticsclinical informaticsEHRelectronic health recordinformation modelinteroperabilityontologysemanticsstandardsterminology

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PMID37873508
PMCPMC10591519

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