December 2015 Vol. 3 No.12

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Semantic Web and the Future of Health Care Data in Family Practice

Marc Jamoulle^1*, MD, Robert Vander Stichele², MD, PhD, Elena Cardillo³, PhD, Joseph Roumier⁴, Ir, Julien Grosjean⁵, Ir, PhD, Stéfan J. Darmoni 6, MD, PhD
 

¹Family Physician, Department of General practice, University of Liege, Belgium
²Family Physician, Prof of Pharmacology, University of Ghent, Belgium
³Information scientist, Institute of Informatics and Telematics, Italian National Research Council, Italy
⁴Engineer and Information scientist
⁵Engineer and Information scientist, CISMeF, TIBS, LITIS EA 4108, Rouen University Hospital, Normandy, Rouen, France
⁶Prof of Medical Informatics, CISMeF, TIBS, LITIS EA 4108, Rouen University Hospital, Normandy, Rouen, France and LIMICS, U1142, INSERM, Paris, France

*Corresponding Author’s E-mail: marc.jamoulle@doct.ulg.ac.be

Accepted December 14, 2015

Abstract

New tools in data management have emerged in the last decade, which are going to revolutionize electronic health records and health information systems. Family practitioners are the first, main and continuous contact with the patient. They are the source and endpoint of the circle of information, generated by judicious medical documentation and smart secondary use of medical data. This article is an introduction to health terminologies, ontologies, semantic data, and linked open data, all expressions used by computer scientists, preparing themselves for the next step: semantic web for health care data.

Keywords: Biological Ontologies, Classification, Controlled vocabulary, Family, Physicians, Semantic interoperability