Integrating electronic health record information to support integrated care: Practical application of ontologies to improve the accuracy of diabetes disease registers
Multiple clinical perspectives must underpin a multi-attribute phenotyping ontology. Ontological integration of EHR data elements can compensate for deficiencies in data quality. Ontological approaches can improve accuracy of phenotyping algorithms. Ontologically integrated EHR data and best practice guidelines can support integrated care. An integrated ontological approach to big clinical data can render them more usable and useful.
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