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Title:
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DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING SEMANTIC PERSONAL HEALTH RECORDS |
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Author(s):
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Juha Puustjärvi , Leena Puustjärvi |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8924-93-5 |
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Editors:
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Pedro Isaías, Bebo White and Miguel Baptista Nunes |
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Year:
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2009 |
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Edition:
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1 |
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Keywords:
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Personal health record, Semantic Web, XML, Ontologies, Open healthcare systems, Semantic interoperability. |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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205 |
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Last Page:
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212 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Personal health records (PHRs) have the potential to significantly change healthcare in the future. They should enable
consumers to become more involved and engaged in their care and allow other authorized stakeholders to access
information about consumer that was previously not available. In order to avoid the compatibility problems in
importing data to PHRs various standardization efforts on PHRs have been done. In particular, the used of the XMLbased
CCR and CCD standards have been proposed. However, a problem with XML-based PHRs is that they do not
support queries that require extracting and integrating data from various documents. In order to allow such queries we
have developed a methodology for developing and maintaining semantic PHRs. By semantic PHRs we refer to PHRs,
which content is structured according to a PHR-ontology, and which are stored in a knowledge base or in a database, and
thus can be accessed by the query languages having high expression power. In this paper, we report our work on the
development and implementation on semantic PHRs. In particular, we will show that XML-based standards such as CCR
and CCD standards are not adequate for developing user friendly PHRs but more expressive languages such as RDF and
OWL are required for modeling PHRs as well as presenting the content of PHRs. |
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