Development of UMLS Based Health Care Web Services for Android Platform
📝 Abstract
In this fast developing world of information, the amount of medical knowledge is rising at an exponential level. The UMLS (Unified Medical Language Systems), is rich knowledge base consisting files and software that provides many health and biomedical vocabularies and standards. A Web service is a web solution to facilitate machine-to-machine interaction over a network. Few UMLS web services are currently available for portable devices, but most of them lack in efficiency and performance. It is proposed to develop Android-based web services for healthcare systems underlying rich knowledge source of UMLS. The experimental evaluation was made to analyse the efficiency and performance effect with and without using the designed prototype. The understand-ability and interaction with the prototype were greater than those who used the alternate sources to obtain the answers to their questions. The overall performance indicates that the system is convenient and easy to use. The result of the evaluation clearly proved that designed system retrieves all the pertinent information better than syntactic searches.
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In this fast developing world of information, the amount of medical knowledge is rising at an exponential level. The UMLS (Unified Medical Language Systems), is rich knowledge base consisting files and software that provides many health and biomedical vocabularies and standards. A Web service is a web solution to facilitate machine-to-machine interaction over a network. Few UMLS web services are currently available for portable devices, but most of them lack in efficiency and performance. It is proposed to develop Android-based web services for healthcare systems underlying rich knowledge source of UMLS. The experimental evaluation was made to analyse the efficiency and performance effect with and without using the designed prototype. The understand-ability and interaction with the prototype were greater than those who used the alternate sources to obtain the answers to their questions. The overall performance indicates that the system is convenient and easy to use. The result of the evaluation clearly proved that designed system retrieves all the pertinent information better than syntactic searches.
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SINDH UNIVERSITY RESEARCH JOURNAL (SCIENCE SERIES)
Development of UMLS Based Health Care Web Services for Android Platform
N. SOOMRO**, S. SOOMRO++, Z. ALANSARI, S. ABBASI, M. R. BELGAUM, A. B. KHAKWANI*
College of Computer Studies, AMA International University, Bahrain
Received 28rd August 2016 and Revised 17th October 2016
INTRODUCTION
Web service is the exchange of systems that contain objects, programs, documents, and a message that is used for application to application interaction through the internet. Two general approaches are for the development of web service. The first one is the top- down approach that is based on the web service interface and XML types. The implementation of the web service that create a WSDL file then use the Web Service to create the web service and skeleton to which can add the required code. The later approach is known as a bottom-up approach that is built on the basis of existing business logic. A WSDL file is generated to describe the resulting web service interface. It is often used for exposing existing function as a web service. However, if complex objects are used, the resulting WSDL might be difficult to understand and less interoperable (Keen, et, at. 2011).
The web services would also be useful to people who have certain symptoms but are unaware of the disease that they may be suffering. The proposed prototype is beneficial for the people specially suffering from Heart diseases, Diabetes, and bone disease, where every new research and discovery brings a new hope for life. This study describes the high potential of the interrelationship of information, people, and technology for improving the health care. The research discusses several information challenges associated with diabetes. This study suggested addressing a set of problems that will improve the lives of not only the patients but also their families, it will also make the provision of diseases care more effective and cost efficient. The major component of the prototype system is web services brain that is populated with the required terms.
BACKGROUND
Healthcare is the medical information system that includes health promotion and protection, disease prevention, health assessment, and illness surveillance of any targeted group. Healthcare systems are very essential for solving the growing medical problems by reducing the cost to find the exact solution, improving efficiency and quality of the solution. The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) (Chen et, al. 2002), facilitates information integration and retrieval from multiple biomedical information sources using various vocabularies. It is preferred over MeshTree, due to huge number of concepts and terms with number of terms at each level of hierarchy in Mesh Tree (Soualmia, et, al. 2013). The UMLS has set of files and software that brings together many health and biomedical vocabularies and standards to enable interoperability between computer systems. Major components or knowledge sources of UMLS are shown in (Fig-1).
The Metathesaurus (Ruiz, et, al. 2012) is a compiled list of terms from over 40 autonomously controlled medical vocabularies known as source vocabularies. The Metathesaurus links synonymous terms from among these source vocabularies. The SPECIALIST Lexicon contains lexical variations of medical conditions in addition to non-medical words. Between them, the Metathesaurus and SPECIALIST Lexicon Abstract: In this fast developing world of information, the amount of medical knowledge is rising at an exponential level. The UMLS (Unified Medical Language Systems), is rich knowledge base consisting files and software that provides many health and biomedical vocabularies and standards. A Web service is a web solution to facilitate machine-to-machine interaction over a network. Few UMLS web services are currently available for portable devices, but most of them lack in efficiency and performance. It is proposed to develop Android-based web services for healthcare systems underlying rich knowledge source of UMLS. The experimental evaluation was made to analyse the efficiency and performance effect with and without using the designed prototype. The understandability and interaction with the prototype were greater than those who used the alternate sources to obtain the answers to their questions. The overall performance indicates that the system is convenient and easy to use. The result of the evaluation clearly proved that designed system retrieves all the pertinent information better than syntactic searches.
Keywords: Unified medical language system, Web service, Health care system. Sindh Univ. Res. Jour. (Sci. Ser.) Vol. 48 (4D) 05-08 (2016) ++Corresponding author: Safeeullah Soomro, email: s.soomro@amaiu.edu.bh
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