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Proposals to Standardization Bodies Section

Proposals to Standardization Bodies Section represents a novel dissemination approach of the RIDE Project achievements and in special the content of the Deliverable D.5.3.1 – Proposals to Standardization Bodies. Please note that eHealth professionals are very welcome to share their comments regarding all RIDE Project deliverables. You can use the [send comment] button on the left side of all public deliverables on page RIDE Project Public Deliverables Page. When you press the [send comment] button, a pop-up window appears in which the commentator can both send text comments or upload commented documents.
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Relations between entities

Individual instances can have various relations to other instances. For example Mary's heart is part of Mary; Mary's run is part of Mary's morning work-out, and so on. In some cases all instances of a given type stand in such relations to correlated instances of some other type. Thus all instances of the type human are also instances of the type mammal.

All instances of the type adult are identical to some instance of the type child existing at an earlier time. All instances of the type nucleus are adjacent to some instance of the type cytoplasm, and so on. Such relations are universal, in the sense that they hold of all instances of a given type (namely, in each case, of the type first mentioned).

It is such universal relations between types which are properly captured in an ontology, which is a representation of the types exemplified by instances in a given domain of reality, and of the universal relations obtaining between such types.

 
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About RIDE Project

RIDE is a roadmap project for interoperability of eHealth systems leading to recommendations for actions and to preparatory actions at the European level. This roadmap will prepare the ground for future actions as envisioned in the action plan of the eHealth Communication COM 356 by coordinating various efforts on eHealth interoperability in member states and the associated states. Since it is not realistic to expect to have a single universally accepted clinical data model that will be adhered to all over the Europe and that the clinical practice, terminology systems and EHR systems are all a long way from such a complete harmonization; the RIDE project address the interoperability of eHealth systems with special emphasis on semantic interoperability. For further information please visit http://www.srdc.metu.edu.tr/webpage/projects/ride/