Processing Evidence Documents with Semantic Web Technologies
Urgent need for Heath Information Network Monitoring
Case Study Background
Technical Safeguards
Health Information Networks must Demonstrate HIPPA Compliance
Modeling with Evidence Documents
Access control – Controlling system access in accordance with a policy
Design Goals
UML Model of Evidence Documents
Hospital Liability for non Verification of Patient Referrals
REA Policy for Evidence Document Exchange
Hospital Liability for non Verification of Patient Referrals
Use-Case: Policy Level for Referral To A Specialist
Use-Case for Referral (cont)
Policy LevelClassification
Machine Readable Evidence Documents
RDFa Markup embedded in Evidence Documents
Knowledge level OWL descriptions
Automated Policy Based Inference Classification into Types
Higher Level Policy Based Inference
Inference Processes
System Concerns

Use-Case: Policy Level for Referral To A Specialist

Policies 1 and 2. Patient must be eligible and the referring physician must be approved An eligible patient type has a documented need and has granted approval An approved referring physician type has primary care responsibility for a patient and is part of a general internist group