HealthFinland—A national semantic publishing network and portal for health information

HealthFinland - A national semantic publishing network and portal for health information

Providing citizens with reliable, up-to-date and individually relevant health information on the web is done by governmental, non-governmental, business and other organizations. Currently the information is published with little co-ordination and co-operation between the publishers. For publishers, this means duplicated work and costs due to publishing same information twice on many websites. A...

HealthFinland—Publishing Health Promotion Information on the Semantic Web

This paper shows how semantic web techniques can be applied to solving problems of distributed content creation, discovery, linking, aggregation, and reuse in health information portals, both from end-user's and content producer’s viewpoints. As a case study, the national semantic health portal HealthFinland is presented. It provides citizens with intelligent searching and browsing services to ...

National health information network cost and structure.

HealthFinland —A National Publication System for Semantic Health Information

HEALTHFINLAND is a national semantic publishing system for providing Finnish citizens with reliable, up-to-date information about health. The system consists of three parts: 1) a centralized service of health ontologies with tools, 2) a semantic content creation channel based on several distributed health organizations, and 3) an intelligent semantic portal aggegating and presenting the content...

Diabetes information portal: a demonstration project for the national health information infrastructure.

Corresponding Author: Youssef T. AL-sheikh, Ph.D., M.S., C(ASCP), Moran Eye Center, 65 North Medical Drive, Salt Lake City, UT 84132; email address [email protected] Health information technologies can deliver complete medical information to the point of care when needed. The set of organizing principles, systems, standards, procedures, and policies that integrates health information ...