- From: John Madden <john.madden@duke.edu>
- Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 11:33:26 -0400
- To: Harry Halpin <hhalpin@ibiblio.org>
- Cc: public-grddl-wg <public-grddl-wg@w3.org>
That's fine. On Apr 6, 2007, at 9:51 PM, Harry Halpin wrote: > John, > There was some concern from Chime that the sort of "saving patient > life" use-case might bit a bit unwise from a medical standpoint. Chime > suggested, can we discover if we have an "X-ray indication" > attached to > the HL7 information model: > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-grddl-wg/2007Mar/0126.html > > However, I don't know if that's compelling enough as an example. > Anyways, would like to address this XML/OWL example in Primer, and > keep > it short, simple, and catchy. > > -harry > > > John Madden wrote: >> >> 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 >>> >> >> > > > -- > -harry > > Harry Halpin, University of Edinburgh > http://www.ibiblio.org/hhalpin 6B522426 >
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