Towards a Flexible Integration of Clinical Guideline Systems With Medical Ontologies and Medical Information Systems Gianluca Correndo 1, Paolo Terenziani 2 1 DI, Università di Torino, Corso Svizzera 184, Torino, Italy 2 DI, Univ. Piemonte Orientale “A. Avogadro”, Spalto Marengo 33, Alessandria, Italy
Outline Need for data integration Knowledge Sharing Guideline standardization External ontology integration GLARE proposal Translation Services Comparisons
Need for Data Integration DB GLARE Execution Environment Clinical Guideline Patients’ Data If ECG is altered for patient then … SELECT exam FROM … WHERE …
Knowledge Sharing a b a) Centralized View: One Ontology Every IS adheres to it b) Decentralized View: Different Ontologies Every IS particularize its data access in order to adhere to the choosed ontology
Guidelines Standardization SNOMED UMLS ICD GLAREDifferent Standard Vocabularies Different IS
External Ontology Integration Mapping #2 Domain Ontology #2 General DB concepts DB Domain Ontology #1 DB Ontology Mapping #1 Particular DB description
Knowledge Sharing SNOMED UMLS ICD-9 a b Information System a Information System b Personal DB Ontology
GLAREs’ Proposal Clinical DB Acquisition Patient DB Execution Instance DB Acquisition Interface Execution Interface CGL DB XML Expert Physician User Physician XML DBMS System KIS Browser Module Metadata Extraction Module Mapping Query Compiler Medical Ontology DB Ontology
Mapping Services HL7 DB Coding System HL7 Domain Coding System DB Upper DB Ontology Domain Ontology HL7 Code System Translation API Description Logic HL7 API Applicative Data
Comparisons VMR SAGE GLARE Common Ontology
Comparisons VMR SAGE GLARE Common Ontology VMR