FYI, there is an excellent article on SemanticWeb.com about the workshop
held this week at the SemTech conference, on "RDF as a Universal
Healthcare Exchange Language", which culminated in a position statement
called the "Yosemite Manifesto":
http://goo.gl/eibDL
Here is the manifesto itself:
http://goo.gl/mBUrZ
[[
Yosemite Manifesto on RDF as a Universal Healthcare Exchange Language
1. RDF is the best available candidate for a universal healthcare
exchange language.
2. Electronic healthcare information should be exchanged in a format
that either: (a) is an RDF format directly; or (b) has a standard
mapping to RDF.
3. Existing standard healthcare vocabularies, data models and exchange
languages should be leveraged by defining standard mappings to RDF, and
any new standards should have RDF representations.
4. Government agencies should mandate or incentivize the use of RDF as a
universal healthcare exchange language.
5. Exchanged healthcare information should be self-describing, using
Linked Data principles, so that each concept URI is de-referenceable to
its free and open definition.
]]
Anyone who wants may add their name to the list of signatories:
http://goo.gl/mBUrZ
(Please do!) And please pass it on, tweet it, google+ it, FaceBook it,
etc. With enough visibility, maybe we can get the right attention to
make this happen and make a difference in healthcare!
David Booth
