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Modeling and implementing a health information provider on the Internet
Sylvain Aymard1, Laurent Falco, Jean-Charles Dufour
1LERTIM, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France.
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
|December 11, 2003
Summary
This study presents a medical web portal for high-quality health information access. It details software modules for query translation and result wrapping, enhancing health information resource integration.
Area of Science:
- Medical Informatics
- Health Information Systems
Background:
- The need for reliable and high-quality medical information is critical.
- Existing health information resources often lack seamless integration and interoperability.
Purpose of the Study:
- To model and implement a medical web portal.
- To provide users with access to well-qualified and high-quality medical information.
- To enhance the integration and interoperability of diverse health information resources.
Main Methods:
- Utilized the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) knowledge sources from the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
- Incorporated an Information Sources Catalog (ISC) developed through the ARIANE project.
- Employed XML technology and Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) for data transformation and file manipulation.
Main Results:
- Designed and implemented software modules for knowledge source exploitation.
- Developed modules to translate user queries to selected information sources.
- Created modules to wrap and present obtained results effectively.
Conclusions:
- The implemented medical web portal demonstrates a viable approach to accessing quality health information.
- Discusses perspectives for future integration and interoperability of health information resources.
- Highlights the potential of the developed system to improve health information accessibility and usability.