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Designing and Implementing an Active Personal Health Record System

Authors:
Juha Puustjärvi
Leena Puustjärvi

Keywords: personal health record; ontologies; OWL; RDF; active databases; relational databases; triggers

Abstract:
Current personal health record (PHR) systems are passive in the sense that they just provide a means for storing individuals PHR but they neither analyze nor provide potential improvements to individual’s healthcare. This is regrettable, as active PHR systems could provide a wide variety of opportunities for improving the quality of healthcare in a cost effective way. In this paper, we describe our work on designing and implementing an active PHR system. In order to achieve semantic interoperability between the system and its information sources, we have developed a specific ontology for the active PHR system. The ontology based (RDF coded) PHRs are physically stored in a relational database as the active features of the PHR system can be easily implemented by the triggers supported by most relational database systems. We also give rules and illustrative examples how ontology based RDF data can be transformed into relational model, and how database triggers can be specified on that data.

Pages: 102 to 107

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: February 23, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4359

ISBN: 978-1-61208-119-9

Location: Gosier, Guadeloupe, France

Dates: from February 23, 2011 to February 28, 2011