Stream: hapi
Topic: Semantic interoperablity
Shalini Sheoran (Dec 02 2016 at 12:13):
How to show that FHIR supports semantic interoperability?Can we do this using HAPI. I am exploring HAPI for maintaining epileptic data.
Shalini Sheoran (Dec 02 2016 at 12:14):
https://www.hl7.org/fhir/questionnaire.html . How to use questionnaire for checking for semantic interoperability.
Josh Mandel (Dec 02 2016 at 12:53):
Can you explain what you mean by this? FHIR is probably best understood as a building block for interoperable systems, but you still need agreement or conventions about semantics, vocabulary, etc.
Shalini Sheoran (Dec 02 2016 at 13:08):
Let's consider there are two patients. And these two patients while using a text area to answer a question in a questionnaire ( Questionnaire.group.text) uses two different words : huge and large. How does HAPI parser takes care of this? I mean how it is being standardized? I am exploring FHIR for storing epileptic data. I want to see a example demo of FHIR supporting semantic interoperability?
James Agnew (Dec 02 2016 at 15:31):
HAPI (and FHIR in general) will provide you with building blocks you could use to build a syntactically interoperable solution, or a semantically interoperable solution, or even a solution that isn't interoperable at all. It's up to you to choose how to use it.
If you and your trading partners have chosen to put your data in a freetext field you're probably headed down a path of syntactic interoperability only. If you and your trading partners choose to use a coded field with codes drawn from an agreed-upon valueset, you may well achieve semantic interoperability.
Shalini Sheoran (Dec 02 2016 at 16:42):
@James Agnew Ok. Are there any existing coded or structured elements, where we can see semantic interoperability being implemented. Basically, I wanted to understand how semantic interoperability is being supported in FHIR. Any pointers on which resources can I try to see where data is structured and semantic interoperability is happening?
James Agnew (Dec 02 2016 at 21:18):
Observation would be a good resource to start with. The FHIR examples page for that resource has a bunch of good examples of structured data, and lots of people are doing interesting real-world interoperability things with the Observation resource.
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