Semantic interoperability between clinical research and healthcare: The PONTE approach

Anastasios Tagaris, Efthymios Chondrogiannis, Vassiliki Andronikou, George Tsatsaronis, Konstantinos Mourtzoukos, Joseph Roumier, Nikolaos Matskanis, Michael Schroeder, Philippe Massonet, Dimitrios Koutsouris, Theodora Varvarigou

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Abstract

The adoption of ICT technologies in healthcare for recording patients’ health events and progression in Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and Clinical Information Systems (CLIS) has led to a rapidly increasing volume of data which is, in general, distributed in autonomous heterogeneous databases. The secondary use of such data (commonly anonymised for privacy reasons) for purposes other than healthcare (such as patient selection for clinical trials) comprises an emerging trend. However, this trend encapsulates a great challenge; semantic interlinking of two different, yet highly related, domains (in terms of semantics) i.e., clinical research and healthcare. This paper aims at presenting an analysis of the heterogeneity issues met in this effort and describing the semantically-enabled multi-step process followed within the PONTE project for achieving the interlinking of these two domains for the provision of the size of the eligible patients for participation in a trial at the cooperating sites.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Semantic Web
Subtitle of host publicationESWC 2012 Satellite Events - Revised Selected Papers
EditorsAlexandre Passant, Barry Norton, Emanuele Della Valle, Raphael Troncy, Irini Fundulaki, Elena Simperl, Dunja Mladenic
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages191-203
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)9783662466407
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015
Externally publishedYes
EventExtended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2012 - Heraklion, Greece
Duration: May 27 2012May 31 2012

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume7540
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceExtended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2012
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityHeraklion
Period05/27/1205/31/12

Keywords

  • Electronic health records
  • Ontology Mapping
  • Semantic interoperability

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