Intelligent health information system to empower patients with chronic diseases

Semantic Web technologies can be utilized to keep patients informed on the latest research on chronic diseases such as diabetes, by gathering online information published by both government and corporate sources. To assemble our Intelligent Health Information System, we created an ontology of terms related to diabetes. Then we leveraged an open-source API to read the ontology into a graphical application, which we also built in an open-source development environment. The application searched for articles on diabetes using a web service and a web crawler. The ultimate goal for our system is to synthesize the information that it gathers, make it customer-specific, and present it to the patient in an easy to understand format.