, 2001).
This shared understanding of the concepts and their relationships allows a means to
integrate the knowledge between disparate healthcare and medical science systems.
Much of the Semantic Web research in the medical sciences area has been specific
in either generating more efficient and effective information searching or to the interoperability
of the EHR. Health information is inherently very tacit and intuitive,
and the terminology often implies information based on physical examinations and
expressions of the patient. While it uses standardized terminology, the difficulty lies
in the expression of this tacit knowledge to others, especially across a network of
computers. The two great needs in the medical sciences and healthcare that can be
fulfilled by Semantic Web are to standardize language and to provide a consistent
foundation for transferring EHR information (Decker et al., 2000).
Standards
While ontologies represent the conceptual basis for the information to be transmitted,
standards allow for consistent transmission of the data between disparate systems.
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