Kristian Kankainen

Tallinn University of Technology | TTU · Department of Health Technologies

Continuity of Care, ContSys, translation,

Following the implementation of Electronic Medical Records (EMR), the amount of digital health data has increased significantly in recent decades. This trend creates an opportunity to share digital data between different healthcare parties for primary and secondary data use. However, the quality of this data is often questioned, and data reuse is s...

Written text has been the preferred medium for storing health data ever since Hippocrates, and the medical narrative is what enables a humanized clinical relationship. Can't we admit natural language as a user-accepted technology that has stood against the test of time? We have previously presented a controlled natural language as a human-computer...

Capturing clinical data in written textual form is by far the most popular and accepted method in health care. The workshop paper presents the author's preliminary results from creating a controlled natural language based on the SNOMED Clinical Terminology. This language can be used as a user interface that allows bidirectional translation between...

This position paper presents preliminary findings from an ongoing systematic literature review over the usages of the ContSys standard ISO 13940 [7]. I show that the literature reveals several patterns of how “A system of concepts for the continuity of care” is understood and applied.