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A WYSIWYM Interface for Semantic Enrichment of E-Prescriptions using Linked Open Drug Data

Authors:
Ali Khalili
Bita Sedaghati

Keywords: Semantic Prescription, E-Prescription, Semantic Annotation, E-Health

Abstract:
In this paper, we present an approach to enrich electronic prescriptions using linked open drug data. The proposed approach employs WYSIWYM (What-You-See-Is-What-You-Mean) interface for integrated authoring, visualization and browsing of semantic data in medical prescriptions. The generated semantic medical prescriptions serve as intelligent e-prescription documents enriched by drug-related meta-data thereby know about their content and the possible interactions. In an e-health system, semantic prescriptions provide an interoperable interface which helps patients, physicians, pharmacists, researchers and pharma companies to collaboratively improve the quality of pharmaceutical services by facilitating the process of shared decision making. In order to showcase semantic prescription we develop a mobile/web application called Pharmer. Pharmer provides different views for the different personas involved in the process of e-prescribing. It employs datasets in Linked Open Drug Data (LODD) such as DBpedia, DrugBank, DailyMed and RxNorm to automatically detect the drugs in a prescription and to collect multidimensional data on them. It also supports automatic prevention of possible drug interactions in a prescription.

Pages: 204 to 213

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2013. Used with permission.

Publication date: December 31, 2013

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2660