Letter to the Editor : FHIR RDF - Why the world needs structured electronic health records

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Turki, Houcemeddine
Rasberry, Lane
Taieb, Mohamed Ali Hadj
Mietchen, Daniel
Ben Aouicha, Mohamed
Pouris, Anastassios
Bousrih, Yamen

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Elsevier

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This comment discusses the benefits of representing and reusing the information in Electronic Health Record databases as knowledge graphs in the RDF format based on the FHIR RDF specification. As a structured representation of clinical data, FHIR RDF-based electronic health records allow a simpler and more effective integration of biomedical information using semantic alignment, queries, interoperability, and federation to provide better support for health practice and research.

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Electronic health records, Resource description framework (RDF), Fast health interoperability resources (FHIR), Semantic EHR, Structured EHR, Clinical data integration, Data reuse

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Turki, H., Rasberry, L., Hadj Taieb, M.A. et al. 2022, 'Letter to the Editor: FHIR RDF - Why the world needs structured electronic health records', Journal of Biomedical Informatics, vol. 136, art. 104253, pp. 1-2, doi : 10.1016/j.jbi.2022.104253.