Published November 20, 2022 | Version v1
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Letter to the Editor: FHIR RDF - Why the world needs structured electronic health records

  • 1. Data Engineering and Semantics Research Unit, Faculty of Sciences of Sfax, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia
  • 2. School of Data Science, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
  • 3. Ronin Institute for Independent Scholarship, Montclair, New Jersey, United States of America
  • 4. Institute for Technological Innovation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
  • 5. VERMEG France, Paris, France

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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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