Sharing Web Clinical Knowledge Between Medical Community to Support a Second Opinion Diagnosis

The exchange of clinical information among medical systems is an important feature to improve healthcare systems with novel clinical activities, such as to obtain a second opinion diagnosis from different physicians even in when their are not available at the requested time. However, technical and se- mantic interoperability problems must be explored to make these new activities possible. This works aims to discuss these problems and proposes solutions with Web services and UDDI to solve technical compatibility, and UMLS and Seman- tic Web are also proposed to address semantic challenges. SODOnt ontology, RDF documents, and Web services are proposed to create a protocol to sup- port a second opinion diagnosis in a shared, service oriented, and distributed computer environment. An acute abdominal pain use case is also discussed.