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Tinley Park · July 18, 2026Insel Spital Bern: From Free Text to Knowledge Graphs: Swiss Medication & Procedure Mapping
This video demonstrates how the Insel Spital Bern team transformed multilingual, free-text electronic health record data on medications and procedures into standardized vocabularies using Neo4j, enabling interactive visualization and quality assessment for clinical interoperability, with antibiotic resistance tracking as a key application.
- Data Harmonization
The team converted multilingual, free-text EHR data on medications and procedures into standardized vocabularies.
- Neo4j Knowledge Graph
They used Neo4j to build a knowledge graph that structures and links the harmonized clinical data.
- Interactive Visualization
The knowledge graph enables interactive visualization of medication and procedure data across Swiss EHRs.
- Gap Analysis
The system supports gap analysis to identify inconsistencies and missing data in clinical records.
- Quality Assessment
It facilitates quality assessment of EHR data to improve clinical interoperability.
- Antibiotic Resistance Tracking
Antibiotic resistance monitoring serves as a key use case driving the development and application of the knowledge graph.