SemHealth
Research Project, SemHealth, A Domain-Specific Ontology for Phylogenetic Analysis
Project Summary
This project was originally inspired by the Heritage Open mHealth Challenge”Heritage Provider Network (HPN), in collaboration with the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and Open mHealth” to develop and submit a mobile application that utilizes the Open mHealth architecture to facilitate interoperability between increasing number of mobile apps related to health and well being.
The Open mHealth architecture is meant to help people coherently leverage the data generated by the multitude of mobile healthcare applications currently in the marketplace. Mobile applications have their own APIs to access their data, which makes it difficult for developers to quickly and easily combine data for other applications. The motivation for this project stems from the semantic integration challenges that arise from the increasing mobile health data silos. Thus, Open mHealth provides a standard for APIs to assist in the above by following these goals stated on its main developer page:
“to foster software reusability in order to allow new applications to be built faster and to share innovations (software components, novel approaches) amongst software developers”
“to standardize and commoditize back-end data stores so client software may access any Open mHealth-compliant data store in a uniform way (interoperability)”
“to produce examples and documentation of these concepts meaningfully and simply”
“to be pragmatic, considerate and iterative in our approach”
So the idea spawned from this challenge was to convert the existing k-Health application to use the Open mHealth architecture. Further, we propose to extend the Open mHealth architecture with semantic web technologies. As Open mHealth is the first standard in mobile health architecture, now is a perfect time to add semantic web technologies and see how well these technologies work with the current spec. Ideally, completion of this project will both satisfy course requirements and result in a submission to the Heritage Open mHealth challenge
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University of Maryland, College Park
