Re: "Killer" use-case for GRDDL Primer

Harry,

Yes, I am putting suggested revisions to this use case together now  
and will post this weekend together with comments.

John



On Apr 4, 2007, at 1:48 AM, Harry Halpin wrote:

> John (cc'ing the GRDDL WG list),
>
> As per our last conversation, I was hoping if you can help us with the
> "killer" GRDDL use-case you were talking about earlier. In particular,
> the use-case I believe has a patient going to the doctor twice, and so
> filling out two different HL7 CDA documents, both in XML. On his first
> visit, he records that he is allergic to a particular family of drugs.
> On the second visit, he forgets that he is allergic to this family of
> drugs, and so his second HL7 CDA document does not record this. A  
> doctor
> prescribes him a drug on the second visit, unknowingly a drug that  
> is a
> subclass of the family of drugs the patient is allergic to by  
> virtue  of
> its properties.
>
> Yet the hospital can automatically catch this error and save the
> patient's life by converting both HL7 documents via GRDDL to RDF, and
> merging them. Therefore the old data about the patient being  
> allergic is
> not lost, but discovered.
>
> Furthermore,  because the family of drugs is kept in an ontology, some
> sort of simple OWL entailment can show the drug the doctor  
> prescribed is
> a subclass of the drug the patient said they were allergic to.
>
> John - this piece would be a rewrite of piece of the Primer Chime
> already wrote. I'm happy to write the prose if you can produce another
> HL7 document that describes this sort of use-case, and feel free to
> modify anything , including data files, (all files are linked from the
> primer):
>
> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/grddl-wg/doc29/primer.html#hl7
>
>
>
> -- 
> 		-harry
>
> Harry Halpin,  University of Edinburgh
> http://www.ibiblio.org/hhalpin 6B522426
>

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