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DISMON: Using Social Web and Semantic Technologies to Monitor Diseases in Limited Environments

DISMON: Using Social Web and Semantic Technologies to Monitor Diseases in Limited Environments

Ángel M. Lagares-Lemos, Miguel Lagares-Lemos, Ricardo Colomo-Palacios, Ángel García-Crespo, Juan Miguel Gómez-Berbís
Copyright: © 2011 |Volume: 4 |Issue: 1 |Pages: 12
ISSN: 1938-7857|EISSN: 1938-7865|EISBN13: 9781466600034|DOI: 10.4018/jitr.2011010104
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Lagares-Lemos, Ángel M., et al. "DISMON: Using Social Web and Semantic Technologies to Monitor Diseases in Limited Environments." JITR vol.4, no.1 2011: pp.48-59. http://doi.org/10.4018/jitr.2011010104

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Lagares-Lemos, Á. M., Lagares-Lemos, M., Colomo-Palacios, R., García-Crespo, Á., & Gómez-Berbís, J. M. (2011). DISMON: Using Social Web and Semantic Technologies to Monitor Diseases in Limited Environments. Journal of Information Technology Research (JITR), 4(1), 48-59. http://doi.org/10.4018/jitr.2011010104

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Lagares-Lemos, Ángel M., et al. "DISMON: Using Social Web and Semantic Technologies to Monitor Diseases in Limited Environments," Journal of Information Technology Research (JITR) 4, no.1: 48-59. http://doi.org/10.4018/jitr.2011010104

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Abstract

Information technology and, more precisely, the internet represent challenges and opportunities for medicine. Technology-driven medicine has changed how practitioners perform their roles in and medical information systems have recently gained momentum as a proof-of-concept of the efficiency of new support-oriented technologies. Emerging applications combine sharing information with a social dimension. This paper presents DISMON (Disease Monitor), a system based on Semantic Technologies and Social Web (SW) to improve patient care for medical diagnosis in limited environments, namely, organizations. DISMON combines Web 2.0 capacities and SW to provide semantic descriptions of clinical symptoms, thereby facilitating diagnosis and helping to foresee diseases, giving useful information to the company and its employees to increase efficiency by means of the prevention of injuries and illnesses, resulting in a safety environment for workers.

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