Towards achieving semantic interoperability of clinical study data with FHIR

Abstract Background Observational clinical studies play a pivotal role in advancing medical knowledge and patient healthcare. To lessen the prohibitive costs of conducting these studies and support evidence-based medicine, results emanating from these studies need to be shared and compared to one an...

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Main Authors: Hugo Leroux, Alejandro Metke-Jimenez, Michael J. Lawley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-09-01
Series:Journal of Biomedical Semantics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13326-017-0148-7