Utilizing Semantic Web Technologies in Healthcare [chapter]

Vassileios D. Kolias, John Stoitsis, Spyretta Golemati, Konstantina S. Nikita
2014 Annals of Information Systems  
The technological breakthrough in biomedical engineering and health informatics has produced several Health Information Systems (HIS) and medical devices that are used on a daily basis in hospitals producing a vast amount of data. The data that are produced come from different sources and are not stored in a unified storage repository or database even in a single hospital. As a result of that the interoperability of HIS is limited, the retrieval of information is difficult and there is hidden
more » ... owledge that remains unexploited in vast and diverse pools of medical data. In order to overcome the above, scientific community suggests the use of the semantic web technologies. The semantic web technologies provide the tools that allow to process data in a more effective and accurate way, create the framework for interoperability between HIS and also integrate data from various sources with their semantic meaning
doi:10.1007/978-3-319-06844-2_2 fatcat:f5m4grimcngc3fnpcyl6j5okny