In the HL7 ITS RDF subgroup, the group identified some potential work projects. One of them was to evaluate C-CDA RDF representations. I believe Eric P. has already done some work in this area.
I am thinking of use cases that might help us evaluate the utility of this representation. I think it would be useful to look at how well such a representation might facilitate genomic discovery using EHR-linked data. For example, if we could use the DTSU HL7 Implementation Guide for CDA® Release 2: Genetic Testing Reports, Release 1 <http://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/product_brief.cfm?product_id=292> to include genetic data in RDF representations of C-CDA documents, then we could evaluate how well we could identify genetic associations to disease using SPARQL queries, along the lines of what is described in [1]. We might also evaluate how well such a representation would facilitate integration with other annotation sources - e.g. ClinVar. 1. http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1002823 -- Joshua Phillips SemanticBits, LLC 410.624.9155