“A leading UK academic has called for a new push on the development of semantic electronic health records based on ‘clinical archetypes’ as the only viable route to deliver fully interoperable electronic health care records, writes Jon Hoeksma in Slovenia.
Dr Dipak Kalra of University College London said clinical archetypes, or “clinical shapes” need to be used in tandem with the advanced clinical standards terminology of SNOMED CT to develop fully interoperable EHRs. He described archetypes as a tool “for building clinical consensus in a consistent ways”.”
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e-Health Europe, 6 May 2008
