Development of UMLS Based Health Care Web Services for Android Platform

TL;DR

This paper presents the development and evaluation of Android-based UMLS web services aimed at improving healthcare information retrieval efficiency and user interaction on portable devices.

Contribution

It introduces a novel Android web service system leveraging UMLS for healthcare, demonstrating enhanced performance and usability over existing solutions.

Findings

The system retrieves pertinent healthcare information more effectively than syntactic searches.

Users found the prototype easier to understand and interact with.

Performance evaluation shows the system is convenient and user-friendly.

Abstract

In this fast developing world of information, the amount of medical knowledge is rising at an exponential level. The UMLS (Unified Medical Language Systems), is rich knowledge base consisting files and software that provides many health and biomedical vocabularies and standards. A Web service is a web solution to facilitate machine-to-machine interaction over a network. Few UMLS web services are currently available for portable devices, but most of them lack in efficiency and performance. It is proposed to develop Android-based web services for healthcare systems underlying rich knowledge source of UMLS. The experimental evaluation was made to analyse the efficiency and performance effect with and without using the designed prototype. The understand-ability and interaction with the prototype were greater than those who used the alternate sources to obtain the answers to their questions. The overall performance indicates that the system is convenient and easy to use. The result of the evaluation clearly proved that designed system retrieves all the pertinent information better than syntactic searches.