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International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7 (3.33) (2018) 225-228
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Research paper
LOD Development System for Medical Information Standard
Hee-kyung Moon
1
, Sung-kook Han
2
, Chang-ho An
3
*
1, 2
Department of Computer Engimeering, College of Engineering, Wonkwang University, 460 Iksandae-ro, Iksan, Korea
3
Department of Financial Information Engineering, Seokyeong University, 124 Seogyeong-ro, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, Korea
*Corresponding author E-mail: choan@skuniv.ac.kr
Abstract
This paper describes Linked Open Data(LOD) development system and its application of medical information standard as Observational
Medical Outcomes Partnership(OMOP) Common Data Model(CDM). The OMOP CDM allows for the systematic analysis of disparate
observational database in each hospital. This paper describes a LOD instance development system based on SII. It can generate the appli-
cation-specified instance development system automatically. Therefore, we applied by medical information standard as OMOP CDM to
LOD development system. As a result, it was confirmed that there is no problem in applying to the standardization of medical infor-
mation using the LOD development system.
Keywords: Medical Information Standard, Linked Open Data(LOD), RDF Schema, CDM, OHDSI.
1. Introduction
Recently, research on standardization of medical information has
been actively carried out. However, medical data have been con-
structed by adopting separate common data models with difficul-
ties in standardization due to different data structures in hospitals
[1, 2]. It is difficult to conduct multi-institutional research because
the data structure and the data terms and code systems used by
each institution are not standardized according to the purpose of
utilization of medical information. In order to solve these prob-
lems, this paper proposes a method for applying medical infor-
mation together with high quality data set by mapping with
Linked Open Data (LOD) based common data model of Observa-
tional Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI). The CDM
can accommodate both administrative claims and Electronic
Health Records (EHR), allowing users to generate evidence from a
wide variety of sources. It would also support collaborative re-
search across data sources both within and outside the Korea, in
addition to being manageable for data owners and useful for data
users [3, 4]. In Korea, medical computerization has been carried
out for the purpose of hospital management. With the spread of
healthcare IT, medical information of hospitals was quickly col-
lected and digitized on a digital platform. The application area of
analysis including clinical decision support based on recently col-
lected medical big data is expanding. In addition, personal medical
information, which is individually managed for each medical insti-
tution, is being converted into a system capable of exchanging
information between medical institutions. But, these information
systems have been developed at widely differing points in time, by
using different development paradigms as well as different soft-
ware and hardware platforms. For this reason, it is difficult to
exchange medical information or conduct multi-institutional re-
search. A complementary study of CDM and LOD is required for
solving these problems. LOD is a new Semantic Web set of best
practice of standards to publish and link heterogeneous data. It can
be applied to the representation and management of public level
health data to alleviate such challenges [5, 6, 7].
In this paper, we present the hierarchical separation based LOD
development system and focus on the data set design of medical
information by standard as OHDSI.
The composition of this paper can be seen as follows. Section 2
shows the LOD Development system environments. Section 3
introduces applied medical information standard. The final Section
summarizes this paper and discusses future research.
2. LOD Development System Environments
This section describes the architecture of LOD instance develop-
ment system. A typical use-case is also presented to show the
effectiveness of the layer separation approach [8].
2.1. Structure of LOD Instance Development
In general, LOD sets consist of two elements: ontologies that de-
fine the common vocabularies by means of Resource Description
Framework (RDF) and the instances that represent the data of
information resources [9, 10]. The domain ontology is usually
developed by using the conventional ontology editors. Schema-
Instance Interface (SII) is generated from the domain ontology
represented by RDF and RDF Schema. The architecture of LOD
instance development system i-Manager has three main function-
alities as shown in Fig. 1. i-Manager creates the instance editing
environment as the front end of the instance development. As the
back end of the system, i-Manager provides many core functions
such as instance editing and store, validation, visualization and
navigation. Since the back end functions are implemented in add-
on modules, additional subsystems such as SPARQL endpoint can
be easily integrated.