ARCHETYPE BASED DOMAIN MODELING FOR HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS: GastrOS: Case Study on Digestive Endoscopy and Validation of the Minimal Standard Terminology

by Koray Atalag

A major problem to be solved in health informatics is high quality, structured and timely data collection. Standard terminologies and uniform domain conceptual models are important steps to alleviate this problem which are also proposed to enable interoperability among systems. With the aim of contributing to the solution of this problem, this study proposes novel features for the Archetypes and multi-level modeling technique in health information and knowledge modeling. The study consists of the development of a research prototype for endoscopic data management, and based on that experience, the extension of Minimal Standard Terminology in Digestive Endoscopy (MST). A major contribution of the study consists of significant extensions to the modeling formalism. The proposed modeling approach may be used in the design and development of health information systems based on archetypes for structured data collection, validation and dynamic user interface creation. This work is aimed to make considerable contribution to the emerging Electronic Health Records (EHR) standards and specifications.

168 pages, Paperback

Published March 27, 2009