On the Semantic Approach to Service Development for Socio-Cyber-Medicine Systems

In a Cyber-Medicine System (CMS), the Internet is used to deliver healthcare services, such as medical consultations, diagnosis, and prescriptions. Services allow end-users (patients) online access to consultations and treatment with medical professionals. When the services benefit from the end-users activity and collaborative work, then the system becomes Social CMS (SCMS). In this position paper, we discuss how SCMS can be implemented based on the semantic approach. As in the generic case of smart environments, an additional layer is introduced— the semantic layer, where all system and domain objects are virtually integrated: multisource data, ongoing processes, situation attributes, reasoning rules, and human activity. The objects are dynamically related leading to a knowledge-rich structure in the form of a semantic network. Semantic algorithms are used for data mining in this network. The derived knowledge feeds construction of context-aware information services to support medical professionals as well as to assist mobile patients.