| Literature DB >> 28806953 |
Abdelali Boussadi1,2, Eric Zapletal3.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Standards and technical specifications have been developed to define how the information contained in Electronic Health Records (EHRs) should be structured, semantically described, and communicated. Current trends rely on differentiating the representation of data instances from the definition of clinical information models. The dual model approach, which combines a reference model (RM) and a clinical information model (CIM), sets in practice this software design pattern. The most recent initiative, proposed by HL7, is called Fast Health Interoperability Resources (FHIR). The aim of our study was to investigate the feasibility of applying the FHIR standard to modeling and exposing EHR data of the Georges Pompidou European Hospital (HEGP) integrating biology and the bedside (i2b2) clinical data warehouse (CDW).Entities:
Keywords: Clinical data warehouse; Database management systems; FHIR; Semantic interoperability; i2b2
Mesh:
Year: 2017 PMID: 28806953 PMCID: PMC5557515 DOI: 10.1186/s12911-017-0513-6
Source DB: PubMed Journal: BMC Med Inform Decis Mak ISSN: 1472-6947 Impact factor: 2.796
Content of the HEGP CDW (as of July 1st, 2016) [27]
| September 2009 | December 2013 | July 2016 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Concepts | |||
| Biology (thousands) | 7.29 | 9.1 | 11.2 |
| Diagnostic codes (ICD-10) (thousands) | 21.39 | 39.91 | 40.25 |
| Drugs (thousands) | 31.36 | 33.67 | 41.6 |
| Data facts | |||
| ICD Diagnosis (millions) | 1.87 | 2.94 | 7.67 |
| Clinical items (millions) | 20.8 | 61.1 | 122.2 |
| Laboratory results (millions) | 62.8 | 98.0 | 124.3 |
| Drug orders (millions) | 0.95 | 3.2 | 6.4 |
| Text reports (millions) | 0.16 | 2.36 | 3.7 |
Fig. 1UML use case diagram describing the client requirements
Fig. 2UML sequence diagram describing the execution of the generic scenario
Fig. 3The i2b2 star schema with only the targeted data
Fig. 4Mapping table between the i2b2 database fields and the FHIR resources field
Fig. 5The i2b2 FHIR server architecture
Fig. 6The i2b2 FHIR server DAO UML class diagram
Example of FHIR queries that can be executed using the i2b2 FHIR server
| FHIR query | Number of returned FHIR resources | Number of patients | |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 |
| 80 FHIR DiagnosticReport | 36 |
| #2 |
| 503 FHIR MedicationOrder | 290 |
Fig. 7FHIR DiagnosticReport resources displayed by the server in XML format in response to query #1
Fig. 8FHIR MedicationOrder resources displayed by the server in XML format in response to query #2 showing the “external” reference to the FHIR Resource Medication