NefroService: plataforma baseada em conhecimento como serviço no domínio da nefrologia

Abstract

Due to the need to improve access to knowledge and the establishment of means for sharing and organizing data in the health area, this research proposes a platform based on the paradigm of knowledge as a service. This can be used in the medical - eld, speci cally in the eld of Nephrology, and can o er centralized access to ontologies and other means of knowledge representation. A detailed description of each part of the architecture and its implementation was made, highlighting its main features and interfaces. As a source of knowledge, an ontology that already exists was adapted, allowing the inference in the knowledge model and the adaptation of a mechanism to support the clinical decision. In addition, a communication protocol was speci ed and used between the knowledge consumer and the knowledge service provider. Thus, the development of this research contributed to the creation of a new architecture, the NefroService, which established itself as a system capable of managing multiple data sources and knowledge models, centralizing access through an easily adaptable API.