I ran across an ontology of great usefulness to human services:one for population and community https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/PCO/?p=summary . As stated "Practical applications of the PCO include community health care, plant pathology
Yesterday, June 1, 2020 the ONC held a working session on patient identity and patient matching. I was able to attend along with some other Project Unify group members and here are my takeaways along with some takeaways/thoughts/comments from other m
From our call on 4/29/2020, this diagram shows that NIEM and FHIR already have or will have the same underlying data model format, RDF and Web Ontology Language (OWL). This allows for quick mapping, structured federated queries, and self-defining da
As we build a NIEM/FHIR bridge I think we need to delve a little more into the non-technical processes that needs to be undertaken to achieve this bridge (in plain English). We typically jump into technical considerations, making assertions about how
Last year the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) published it's first version of the U.S. Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI), which defines "data classes" and elements for exchange in healthcare. Primarily