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Researchers from University Hospital Describe Findings in Health and Medical Informatics

  2012 JAN 3 - (VerticalNews.com) -- Researchers detail in "Interoperability driven integration of biomedical data sources," new data in Health and Medical Informatics. According to the authors of a study from Geneva, Switzerland, "In this paper, we introduce a data integration methodology that promotes technical, syntactic and semantic interoperability for operational healthcare data sources. ETL processes provide access to different operational databases at the technical level."

  "Furthermore, data instances have they syntax aligned according to biomedical terminologies using natural language processing. Finally, semantic web technologies are used to ensure common meaning and to provide ubiquitous access to the data. The system's performance and solvability assessments were carried out using clinical questions against seven healthcare institutions distributed across Europe. The architecture managed to provide interoperability within the limited heterogeneous grid of hospitals," wrote D. Teodoro and colleagues, University Hospital.

  The researchers concluded: "Preliminary scalability result tests are provided."

  Teodoro and colleagues published the results of their research in Studies In Health Technology and Informatics (Interoperability driven integration of biomedical data sources. Studies In Health Technology and Informatics, 2011;169():185-9).

  For additional information, contact D. Teodoro, SIMED, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.

  Keywords: City:Geneva, Country:Switzerland, Region:Europe, Machine Learning, Emerging Technologies.

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