Re: HL7 and FHIR

I am participating in the European H2020 project named GATEKEEPER which is focused on smart personal healthcare. HL7 is a member of the project. We’re looking at combining the Web of Things, FHIR, semantic technologies and more in a variety of pilots.  FHIR is essential a means to use RESTful interfaces to access healthcare related data in a variety of formats, e.g. JSON-LD. There is a body of work on healthcare related ontologies.  Here is a pointer to FHIR by the UK’s NHS, and the overview from FHIR itself:

 https://digital.nhs.uk/services/fhir-apis <https://digital.nhs.uk/services/fhir-apis>
 https://www.hl7.org/fhir/overview.html <https://www.hl7.org/fhir/overview.html>

A major challenge is how to integrate heterogeneous data sources whilst avoiding a loss of valuable information due to differences in vocabularies, data quality, context and so forth.

> On 17 Jan 2020, at 02:01, Paola Di Maio <paola.dimaio@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Thanks for posting and welcome
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> I'm lurking on this list and I find the set of topics large and bewildering.
> WATCH THIS SPACE!! 
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> > HL7 v3 can not be fully implemented with the current state of Object Databases.
> Perhaps expound a little on how can AI KR solve this problem. 
> some of us may have no idea what is HL7 , Please explain more
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> Thanks!!!!
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> PDM
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> I'm interested in HL7 and in particular FHIR. 
> FHIR has an RDF/JSONLD representation, and the schema is represented as SHEX (amongst several other implementations, including JSON/JSON schema, XML/RelaxNG etc).
> I think this is a very interesting piece of work and I'm interested in collaborations.
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> Cheers!

Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett
W3C Data Activity Lead & W3C champion for the Web of things