Title: The population health record: A knowledge-based infrastructure to support integration and analysis of population health data
Abstract: Population health decisions must consider complex relationships between multiple concepts measured with differential accuracy and scattered across heterogeneous data sources. The Population Health Record (PopHR) is a semantic web application that automates the integration and extraction of heterogeneous data from multiple distributed sources to measure and monitor population health and health system performance in a defined population. PopHR uses formally represented knowledge about the epidemiology of chronic diseases and other domains to organize information into a coherent portrait of population health and to improve decision-making related to the planning, implementation and evaluation of population health and health system interventions.
Dr David Buckeridge is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McGill University in Montreal where he holds an Applied Public Health Research Chair in eHealth Interventions from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. A Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. As a clinician-scientist in public health, his research and practice focus on the informatics of population health surveillance.