Semantic Web-Based Blueprint for Digital Healthcare in A Resource Constrained Environment: Towards A Connected Healthcare Ecosystem

Abstract

This research endeavor is an attempt to illustrate the usefulness of Web 3.0 in enabling healthcare in marginalized communities of Dutywa Health District in the Eastern Cape. The semantic web guides the computer to access authentic data, and this evolves into AI when the information is utilized. The research study adopts a Design Science Methodology to model a Semantic Web-Based Healthcare Framework for rural healthcare and utilizes an Apache Jena Fuseki Server or Protégé to develop and deploy a prototype to the framework for proof of concept. The Semantic Web-Based Healthcare Framework development is benchmarked against BioMedLib Search Engine to prove its efficiency based on the projection of economic factors. The evaluation shows that the proposed Semantic Web-Based Healthcare Framework developed projects significant Return on Investment over time