The Management and Integration of Biomedical Knowledge: Application in the Health-e-Child Project (Position Paper)

TL;DR

This position paper discusses a clinician-centered methodology for integrating biomedical knowledge using ontologies to create a comprehensive healthcare platform for pediatric care within the Health-e-Child project.

Contribution

It introduces an innovative approach for vertical biomedical knowledge integration through ontology fragments, semantic bridges, and enriched views, tailored for healthcare data.

Findings

Preliminary examples demonstrate collection of biomedical data from various sources.

Methodology enables formal definition and connection of biomedical knowledge.

Framework supports comprehensive pediatric healthcare data integration.

Abstract

The Health-e-Child project aims to develop an integrated healthcare platform for European paediatrics. In order to achieve a comprehensive view of childrens health, a complex integration of biomedical data, information, and knowledge is necessary. Ontologies will be used to formally define this domain knowledge and will form the basis for the medical knowledge management system. This paper introduces an innovative methodology for the vertical integration of biomedical knowledge. This approach will be largely clinician-centered and will enable the definition of ontology fragments, connections between them (semantic bridges) and enriched ontology fragments (views). The strategy for the specification and capture of fragments, bridges and views is outlined with preliminary examples demonstrated in the collection of biomedical information from hospital databases, biomedical ontologies, and biomedical public databases.