title: A deployment and Research Roadmap for Semantic Interoperability: the EU semantic health project.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: WHO Classifications and Terminology Geneva, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lewalle
authors.forename: Jean M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Rodrigues
authors.forename: Pieter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zanstra
authors.forename: Bedirhan
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ustun
authors.forename: Dipak
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kalra
authors.forename: Gyorgy
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Surjan
authors.forename: Alan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rector
authors.forename: Veli
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Stroetmann
authors.forename: Martti
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Virtanen
mesh_terms: 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