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Abstract: SemanticHealthNet will develop a European organisational and governance process for the semantic interoperability of clinical data and knowledge, to help ensure that health record systems are optimised for patient care, public health and clinical research across systems and institutions. SemanticHealthNet will capture the needs for evidence-based, patient-centred integrated care and for public health, encapsulating existing European consensus in the management of chronic heart failure and cardiovascular prevention. Experts in EHR architectures, clinical data structures, terminologies and ontologies will combine, tailor and pilot their best-of-breed resources in response to optimise clinical data and information exchange. Health authorities, clinical professionals, ministries, vendors, purchasers, insurers are involved via Clinical and Industrial Advisory Boards to ensure that the project approach and results are realistically adoptable and sustainable. A business model to justify strategic investments, including the opportunity costs for key stakeholders such as SDOs, industry, will be defined. This, and links with epSOS II and the eHealth Governance Initiative, will inform the shape of the Virtual Organisation that this Network will establish to sustain semantic interoperability developments and their adoption. The consortium includes more than 40 internationally recognised experts, including from the U.S. and Canada, ensuring a global impact.

Keywords: medical computer sciences; medical documentation; Medical informatics

MUG Research Units: Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation

Project partners: Comite Europeen de Coordination des Industries Radioloques Electromedicales et d´Informatique de Sante AISBL, Belgium; Comite Permanent des Medecins Europeens AISBL, Belgium; EMPIRICA Gesellschaft für Kommunikations- und Technologieforschung mbH, Germany; European Institute for Health Records, France; HL7 International Fondation, Belgium; Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, United Kingdom; Institut National de Sante et Recherche Medicale, France; International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation FMBA, Denmark; Les Hopitaux Universitaires de Geneve, Switzerland; Ocean Informatics UK Limited, United Kingdom; Research in Advanced Medical Information and Telematics VZW, Belgium; The University of Manchester, United Kingdom; University of Hull, United Kingdom; Vereniging EN13606 Consortium, Netherlands; Whittington Hospital National Health Service Trust, United Kingdom; World Health Organization, Switzerland