title: A platform for exploration into chaining of web services for clinical data transformation and reasoning.
abstract: The heterogeneity of clinical data is a key problem in the sharing and reuse of Electronic Health Record (EHR) data. We approach this problem through the combined use of EHR standards and semantic web technologies, concretely by means of clinical data transformation applications that convert EHR data in proprietary format, first into clinical information models based on archetypes, and then into RDF/OWL extracts which can be used for automated reasoning. In this paper we describe a proof-of-concept platform to facilitate the (re)configuration of such clinical data transformation applications. The platform is built upon a number of web services dealing with transformations at different levels (such as normalization or abstraction), and relies on a collection of reusable mappings designed to solve specific transformation steps in a particular clinical domain. The platform has been used in the development of two different data transformation applications in the area of colorectal cancer.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Aplicaciones de las Tecnologías de la Información y de las Comunicaciones Avanzadas (ITACA), Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain; Veratech for Health SL, Valencia, Spain.
authors.forename: José Alberto
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Maldonado
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Computer Engineering and Science, Universitat Jaume I, Spain.
authors.forename: Mar
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Marcos
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Informática y Sistemas, Universidad de Murcia, IMIB-Arrixaca, Spain.
authors.forename: Jesualdo Tomás
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Fernández-Breis
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Aplicaciones de las Tecnologías de la Información y de las Comunicaciones Avanzadas (ITACA), Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain.
authors.forename: Estíbaliz
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Parcero
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Aplicaciones de las Tecnologías de la Información y de las Comunicaciones Avanzadas (ITACA), Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain.
authors.forename: Diego
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Boscá
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Informática y Sistemas, Universidad de Murcia, IMIB-Arrixaca, Spain.
authors.forename: María Del Carmen
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Legaz-García
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Computer Engineering and Science, Universitat Jaume I, Spain.
authors.forename: Begoña
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Martínez-Salvador
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Aplicaciones de las Tecnologías de la Información y de las Comunicaciones Avanzadas (ITACA), Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain.
authors.forename: Montserrat
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Robles
mesh_terms: D003199:Computer Systems; D057286:Electronic Health Records / Q000592:standards; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008297:Male; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D012660:Semantics; D012984:Software