TY - JOUR
T1 - Developing A Semantic Web-based Framework for Executing the Clinical Quality Language Using FHIR
AU - Jiang, Guoqian
AU - Prud’Hommeaux, Eric
AU - Xiao, Guohui
AU - Solbrig, Harold R.
N1 - Funding Information:
This study is supported in part by NIH grants U01 HG009450, U01 CA180940, and R01 GM105688.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - The Clinical Quality Language (CQL) is a HL7 specification, aiming to provide a human-readable language to define clinical quality measures and decision support rules while it makes logic expressions independent of any specific data model (e.g., Quality Data Model, HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources – FHIR). FHIR adopts RDF as its third representation/interchange format in addition to XML and JSON, and uses the Shape Expressions (ShEx) schema to standardize and validate the FHIR RDF graphs. In this presentation, we propose a Semantic Web-based framework that enables the execution of CQL using the FHIR RDF technologies. The framework comprises the following four modules: 1) a CQL-to-SPARQL transformation module; 2) a value set service module; 3) a FHIR RDF transformation module; and 4) a ShEx-based data validation module. We implemented a prototype to demonstrate the utility of the framework and discussed the challenges and ongoing tasks.
AB - The Clinical Quality Language (CQL) is a HL7 specification, aiming to provide a human-readable language to define clinical quality measures and decision support rules while it makes logic expressions independent of any specific data model (e.g., Quality Data Model, HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources – FHIR). FHIR adopts RDF as its third representation/interchange format in addition to XML and JSON, and uses the Shape Expressions (ShEx) schema to standardize and validate the FHIR RDF graphs. In this presentation, we propose a Semantic Web-based framework that enables the execution of CQL using the FHIR RDF technologies. The framework comprises the following four modules: 1) a CQL-to-SPARQL transformation module; 2) a value set service module; 3) a FHIR RDF transformation module; and 4) a ShEx-based data validation module. We implemented a prototype to demonstrate the utility of the framework and discussed the challenges and ongoing tasks.
KW - Clinical Quality Language
KW - FHIR
KW - RDF.
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M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85041466009
SN - 1613-0073
VL - 2042
JO - CEUR Workshop Proceedings
JF - CEUR Workshop Proceedings
T2 - 10th International Conference on Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Health Care and Life Sciences, SWAT4LS 2017
Y2 - 4 December 2017 through 7 December 2017
ER -