A deployment and Research Roadmap for Semantic Interoperability: the EU semantic health project.
The purpose of this EU funded project is to describe a short and medium term Research and Deployment Roadmap for Semantic Interoperability in e-health. It started by defining 4 levels and 3 dimensions for Semantic Interoperability. The vision is to reconcile the needs for the direct patient care safety, biomedical and clinical research and for public health by the reuse of direct care data: from gene to individuals and populations. The methodology is presented and preliminary results and milestones for the short and the long term are set. We conclude by statements on the main characteristics and needs of the roadmap to sustain better health for individual and populations in the changing EU health care systems.
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Pierre
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Rodrigues
Jean M
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Zanstra
Pieter
P
Ustun
Bedirhan
B
Kalra
Dipak
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Surjan
Gyorgy
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Rector
Alan
A
Stroetmann
Veli
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Virtanen
Martti
M
D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D004493:Education; D005060:Europe; D005062:European Union; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019303:Multilingualism; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D020380:Needs Assessment; D040442:Public Health Informatics; D012106:Research; D012660:Semantics; D012922:Social Change; D012985:Software Design; D018511:Systems Integration