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The Open Syndrome Definition as a Machine-Readable Standard for Public Health: Design and Implementation Study

  • By

  • Ana Paula Gomes Ferreira

  • Aleksandar Anžel

  • Izabel Marcilio

  • Helen Hughes

  • Alex J Elliot

  • Jude Dzevela Kong

  • Madlen Schranz

  • Alexander Ullrich

  • Georges Hattab

  • June 18, 2026

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    Case definitions are crucial for public health, aiding in disease identification, monitoring, and response.

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    The lack of standardized, machine-readable formats for case definitions hampers public health surveillance and AI integration.

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    The Open Syndrome Definition (OSD) framework aims to provide a structured, machine-readable format for case definitions.

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    OSD enhances semantic interoperability, allowing for precise disease descriptions suitable for AI applications.

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    This work introduces a dataset of machine-readable case definitions from multiple countries, promoting global interoperability.

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The Open Syndrome Definition as a Machine-Readable Standard for Public Health: Design and Implementation Study

  • by Ana Paula Gomes Ferreira, Aleksandar Anžel, Izabel Marcilio, Helen Hughes, Alex J Elliot, Jude Dzevela Kong, Madlen Schranz, Alexander Ullrich, Georges Hattab

  • June 18, 2026

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