Modelo basado en ingeniería ontológica para la interoperabilidad de historias clínicas electrónicas en las instituciones prestadoras de servicios de salud

Abstract

Recently, there has been talk of the importance of data analysis and the interconnectivity between them for all business sectors in a country, which allows for the streamlining and automation of all processes. Among these advances, it is worth highlighting the interoperability models that are being adopted by several Latin American countries. These models seek to create interconnectivity networks which allow the exchange of information between different public and private entities in these countries. In Colombia it is important to mention that the respective regulation of these networks has been initiated from the legal instances, as described in the law 2015 of 2020, whose objective consists of the creation of the interoperability of the electronic medical record (IHCE), for all the entities of the health sector. This law seeks to take advantage of these information networks by creating a new model for the exchange of medical information by each inhabitant of the national territory. Within this framework of information exchange, it is necessary to establish a standard language of communication. Therefore, ontological engineering provides essential elements in the formality of terms, concepts and knowledge, giving way to formal and explicit objectivity under the context of a common and unified integration model of communication between the different information systems of the actors in the health sector. In order to comply with the provisions of the law, it is proposed to design an interoperable ontological model which establishes the exchange and availability of data from the clinical history of each patient, provided by the different information systems managed by each of the institutions providing health services in the city of Bogotá.