Re: New and Improved Use-Case document?

> 5) Chime/DanC - any ideas for a clinical data use case?

I re-worked this one, per Harry's request into a 3rd person tone:

Kayode, a developer for a clinical research data management system, uses 
XML as the 'main' representation format organized around a computer-based 
patient record, edits the XML remotely (on a variety of devices) via 
XForms, submits the XML document to a unique URI for each such record 
using the HTTP PUT method.

He would like to use 4Suite's content management services which include a 
mechanism to automatically transforms an XML document to an RDF equivalent 
graph for persistence in synchrony with any changes to the document.

The expense of dual representation is space, but the primary
value is being able to query both as XML and as RDF.  The developer has 
found RDF queries more amenable for investigative querying.

Kayode realizes A GRDDL approach could alleviate this expense by allowing 
a computer-based patient record or any XML-based collection of clinical 
research data to be queried semantically by associating a GRDDL profile to 
the specific XML vocabulary.

This would help manage research projects assigned to residents while 
trying to determine an initial search criteria for a patient population 
relevant to his or her particular study.  Each study might have a set of 
classifications specific to the study that they could express as logical 
rules or in an ontology.

Kayode could design a web-based user interface that worked with a client 
that understood GRDDL and could pick computer-based patient records from a
remote server (as XML documents).  Each would be associated with a GRDDL
profile that extracted clinical data as RDF expressed in a universally 
supported vocabulary for a computer-based patient record.

The residents could then ask speculative questions of the resulting RDF 
graph or apply the study-specific rules on the resulting RDF to classify 
the data according to his domain of interest (specific diagnoses, 
pathological observations, etc..)

Chimezie Ogbuji
Lead Systems Analyst
Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
9500 Euclid Avenue/ W26
Cleveland, Ohio 44195
Office: (216)444-8593
ogbujic@ccf.org

Received on Tuesday, 22 August 2006 03:17:55 UTC