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Digital patient: personalized and translational data management through the MyHealthAvatar EU project

  • Haridimos Kondylakis
    ,
  • Emmanouil G. Spanakis
    ,
  • Stelios Sfakianakis
    ,
  • Vangelis Sakkalis
    ,
  • Manolis Tsiknakis
    ,
  • Kostas Marias
  • Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas
Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Conference contribution Peer-review

Abstract

The advancements in healthcare practice have brought to the fore the need for flexible access to health-related information and created an ever-growing demand for the design and the development of data management infrastructures for translational and personalized medicine. In this paper, we present the data management solution implemented for the MyHealthAvatar EU research project, a project that attempts to create a digital representation of a patient's health status. The platform is capable of aggregating several knowledge sources relevant for the provision of individualized personal services. To this end, state of the art technologies are exploited, such as ontologies to model all available information, semantic integration to enable data and query translation and a variety of linking services to allow connecting to external sources. All original information is stored in a NoSQL database for reasons of efficiency and fault tolerance. Then it is semantically uplifted through a semantic warehouse which enables efficient access to it. All different technologies are combined to create a novel web-based platform allowing seamless user interaction through APIs that support personalized, granular and secure access to the relevant information.

Publication Information

Output type

Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Conference contribution Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 1397-1400

Publication milestones

  • Published - 05/11/2015

Publication status

Published - 05/11/2015

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., United States

ISBN (Print)

9781424492718

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/624291
  • Scopus: 84953227245

Host publication title

2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)

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