ArticleStudies in health technology and informatics2025
Semantic Difficulties in FHIR 'Conditions'.
Article in Studies in health technology and informatics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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- Extended Grammar of Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine - Clinical Terms for Semantic Representation of Clinical Data: Methodological Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Article
- Incompleteness of Electronic Health Records: An Impending Process Problem Within Healthcare.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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Abstract
One goal of the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard is to prevent semantic ambiguities when patient data are electronically exchanged. To assess whether the FHIR specifications live up to this expectation, we examined FHIR's Condition resource thereby focusing on the resource elements 'clinical status' and 'verification status' when used in combination. We found that the definitions for these elements, as well as of several of their allowed values, suffer from the following semantic difficulties: the use of disjunctive descriptions, the presence of pseudo-synonyms lacking clear explanation of what distinctions FHIR has in mind, and insufficient discrimination between evidence and what such evidence would be about.
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