The Sortal Concept in the Context of Biomedical Record Linkage

Miletic, Marko; Sariyar, Murat (2022). The Sortal Concept in the Context of Biomedical Record Linkage Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 295, pp. 293-297. IOS Press 10.3233/SHTI220720

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Biomedical Record Linkage is especially designed for linking data of patients in different data repositories. An important question in this context is whether singling-out is sufficient for identifying a patient, and if not, what is in general required for identification. To provide hints for an answer, we will extend previous works on the concept of identity and extend the sortal concept, stemming from analytical philosophy and upper-level ontologies. A sortal is a concept that is associated with an identity criterion. For example, the concept "set" has the identity criterion "having the same members". Based on a description of a record linkage setting, we operationalize the sortal concept by providing a distinction between the digital representation of a person (d-sortal) and the person in flesh (b-sortal).

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

School of Engineering and Computer Science > Institut für Medizininformatik I4MI
School of Engineering and Computer Science

Name:

Miletic, Marko and
Sariyar, Murat

Subjects:

Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science

ISSN:

1879-8365

ISBN:

9781643682907

Series:

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Publisher:

IOS Press

Language:

English

Submitter:

Murat Sariyar

Date Deposited:

20 Dec 2022 15:26

Last Modified:

15 Jan 2024 15:26

Publisher DOI:

10.3233/SHTI220720

ARBOR DOI:

10.24451/arbor.18472

URI:

https://arbor.bfh.ch/id/eprint/18472

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