Semantic Web Interest Grows
January 26th, 2006 | Published in Business, Health, News
Bio-IT World
Tonya Hongsermeier, corporate manager, clinical knowledge management and decision support at Partners HealthCare System, and her colleague Vipul Kashyap, senior medical informatician at Partners, discussed some of the work the company is doing with Semantic Web -based decision support systems.
“We need an actionable decision support system that works in the context of [an organization's] workflow,” said Hongsermeier.
Partners is using Semantic Web standards such as the Resource Description Framework (RDF) to help make electronic medical record (EMR) patient data such as age, medical history, and family history available to computer models. Having the data in RDF format allows Partners to use what is called the Semantic Web Rules Language (SWRL) to write decision support rules for treatments or selecting patients for trials.
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