epSOS – Smart Open Services for European Patients - is the main European electronic Health (eHealth) interoperability project co-funded by the European Commission and the partners. It focuses on improving medical treatment of citizens while abroad by providing health professionals with the necessary patient data.
Background hypothesis. In existing search engines, including the most advanced question-answering architectures, such as EAGLi, answers or documents are provided to the user some relevance-driven ranking criteria. However, providing a ranked list of documents or answers is not sufficient regarding novelty detection; therefore being able to decide whether the retrieved answer is new would provide a major improvement, which could impact the intrinsic definition of relevance. Aims.
Google earth for the body, filling the gap between 3D Anatomy and the Electronic Patient Record, using Text Analytics and Ontology Engineering.
The DebugIT project is a large-scale integrating project funded within the 7th EU Framework Programme (FP7). The main objectives are to build IT tools that should have significant impacts for the monitoring and control of infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistances in Europe. This will be realized by building a technical and semantic infrastructure able to:
A joint project with the Swiss-Prot research group The Unimed project addresses the important problem of increasing interoperability between data resources from the medical informatics and the bioinformatics domains. We propose to link UniProtKB entries to the two most widely used disease terminologies:
Anaïs Mottaz, Yum L Yip, Patrick Ruch, and Anne-Lise Veuthey. Mapping protein information to disease terminologies. Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics, 4(3):243–251, 2007. ↩↩
Ruch Patrick, Mottaz Anaïs, Veuthey Anne-Lise, and others. Mapping proteins to disease terminologies: from uniprot to mesh. BMC Bioinformatics, 2008. ↩↩
The goal of this joint project between the Swiss-Prot group of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and the Medical Informatics Service of the University Hospital of Geneva is to explore the development of question-answering systems in functionalgenomics.
The European Network of Excellence for Biomedical Data Mining and Semantic Interoperability aims at bridging gaps in European research infrastructure and facilitating cross-fertilisation between scientific disciplines such as computer science, system engineering and medical/clinical research. The long-term goal of the network is the development of generic methods and tools supporting critical tasks in medical and biomedical informatics, such as, data-mining, knowledge discovery, knowledge representation, abstraction and indexing of information, semantic-based information retrieval in a complex and high-dimensional information space, and knowledge based adaptive systems for provision of decision support for dissemination of evidence based medicine.