A semantic web technology based approach to identify hypertensive patients for follow-up/recall

Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 318-323

  Mabotuwana, Thusitha D S ^a   Warren, Jim ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b New Zealand's National Institute for Health Innovation (NIHI)   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTRIC RELAYS; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL EQUIPMENT; HEALTH; INFORMATION THEORY; LINGUISTICS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

COMPUTER-BASED MEDICAL SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NEW ZEALAND; ONTOLOGY BASED APPROACH; PRACTICAL ISSUES; SEMANTIC QUERIES; SEMANTIC WEB TECHNOLOGIES; WEB ONTOLOGY LANGUAGE OWL; WEB RULE LANGUAGE;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 51849131189     PISSN: 10637125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CBMS.2008.12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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