title: The role of medicinal ontologies in querying and exchanging pharmaceutical information.
abstract: The technology developed for interoperable autonomous systems has significantly changed during the past few years. In particular, XML is rapidly becoming the key standard for data representation and transportation. However, the introduction of XML is not enough but many other XML-based technologies have to be deployed in order to achieve a seamless interoperability between the organisations of the healthcare sector. In this article we have restricted ourselves on electronic prescription systems and on the chances that Semantic Web technologies can provide. In particular, we report our work on medicinal ontologies and how they can be exploited (i) in providing querying facilities on electronic prescriptions and (ii) in achieving semantic interoperability between medicinal information systems. Especially, we introduced our adopted RDF-based messaging and show its gains over XML-based messaging.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Helsinki University of Technology, P.O. Box 9210 FIN 02015 TKK, Finland. juha.puustjarvi@tkk.fi
authors.forename: Juha
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Puustjärvi
authors.forename: Leena
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Puustjärvi
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D019992:Databases as Topic; D055695:Electronic Prescribing; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D007256:Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D020407:Internet; D011381:Programming Languages; D012660:Semantics; D018511:Systems Integration