Title
The ObTiMA system - ontology-based managing of clinical trials.
Abstract
Clinical Trial Management Systems promise to help researchers in managing the large amounts of data occurring in clinical trials. In such systems Case Report Forms for capturing all patient data can usually be defined freely for a given trial. But if database definitions are automatically derived from such trial-specific definitions then the collected data cannot be easily compared to or integrated into other trials. We address this interoperability issue with an approach based on ontology and semantic data mediation. This resulted in the development of the ObTiMA system which is composed of a component for setting-up clinical trials and another for handling patient data during trials. Both components offer data reusability by relying on shared concepts defined in an ontology covering the whole cancer care and research spectrum.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.3233/978-1-60750-588-4-1090
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Clinical trial management system,Application ontology,Semantic data mediation
Data science,Ontology,Interoperability,Knowledge management,Clinical trial,Management system,Medicine,Reusability,Semantic data model
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
160
Pt 2
0926-9630
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.59
6
Authors
8