The next section discusses ways that the
Semantic Web has been applied in the medical sciences field.
Semantic.Web.Applications. .
in. Medical. Science
Table 3 lists only a few of the sample projects being conducted in the medical science
and healthcare field. Previous research in this area has dealt with two main
Table 3. Sample medical Semantic Web projects
PROJECTS
Name Purpose Associated
Organization
Source
Nardon, 2004
http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/wor
k-areas/ehrs/GEHR/index.htm
Brazilian National
Health Card
Aimed at creating infrastructure for
capture of encounter information at
the point of care
Nardon, 2004
Bicer et al., 2005
http://www.srdc.metu.edu.tr/we
bpage/projects/artemis/
Active Semantic
Electronic Patient
Record
Development of populated ontologies
in the healthcare (specially
cardiology practice) domain; an
annotation tool for annotation of
patient records, and decision support
algorithms that support rule and
ontology based checking/validation
and evaluation.
LSDIS (large
Scale
Distributed
Information
Systems and
AHC (Athens
Heart Center)
http://lsdis.
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