Semantic Web for Effective Healthcare Systems

2 Semantic Web for Effective Healthcare Systems: Impact and Challenges

Hemendra Shankar Sharma and Ashish Sharma*

Department of Computer Engineering & Applications, GLA University, Post Ajhai, Mathura (UP), India

Abstract

The use of information technology in the healthcare industry use so many types of electronic medium to maintain and process the information for all type of patients can be single or group of patients.

Complexity heterogeneous behavior of data is also a challenge. Healthcare services dynamic demands the efficient incorporation of knowledge from various sources, pathways knowledge of the practitioner, etc. Through this, the user will facilitate to browse the information from one place but the challenge in this that the information should be verified and authentic otherwise can be proved dangerous for life.

Another point is users are not familiar with the searching terms because the language is very much different as compared to the regular keyword and also badly managed repositories of information. This condition makes information retrieval difficult. The same Security is a significant concern while managing the web well-being applications since it includes private and delicate healthcare information of the patients. Scientists and professionals need to make frameworks interoperable and incorporate them to serve all the partners including emergency clinics, clinicians, clinical care staff, and patients [1].

In this chapter, we explore the impact and challenges ...