Approaching Electronic Healthcare Records Management from a Semantic Web perspective

A poster presentation written by Pedro José Vivancos-Vicente, Marcos Menárguez-Tortosa, Rafael Valencia-García and Jesualdo Tomás Fernández-Breis. It was presented at the ESWC2007. It is about Semantic Web, Knowledge Representation, Electronic Healthcare Records, Medical Informatics and Knowledge Management

[edit] Abstract

The lifelong clinical information of any person supported by electronic means configures his Electronic Health Record (EHR). This information is usually distributed among several independent and heterogeneous systems that may be syntactically or semantically incompatible. There are currently different standards for representing and exchanging EHR information among different systems. In advanced EHR approaches, clinical information is represented by means of archetypes. Most of these approaches use ADL to specify archetypes. The Semantic Web is a vision for the future of the Web in which information is given explicit meaning, making it easier for machines to automatically process and integrate information available on the Web. Hence, Semantic Web technologies can be appropriate to manage clinical archetypes and promote interoperability between EHR systems. In this paper, an alternative representation to ADL using OWL is presented. The OWL representation has some advantages such as its formal condition, its suitability for sharing and reuse, and the possibility of reasoning over OWL content. This new representation allow for managing clinical information in Semantic Web settings. Hence, an ontological infrastructure to support clinical archetype management and interoperability is presented.

This data has been imported from the ESWC2007 RDF