Meaning beyond the data
Healthcare data can travel between systems without its meaning arriving intact. Context can disappear, distinctions can blur, and the same information can serve very different purposes.
Semantic Weekly explores what it takes to keep that meaning understandable. Through practical examples and critical questions, I examine terminology, interoperability and governance—and the human decisions behind the technical artefacts.
From CodeSystems, ValueSets and ConceptMaps to the broader challenges of transforming and reusing healthcare data, this series asks a recurring question: what do we need to preserve when information moves?
Explore the episodes below. Each offers a standalone reflection and forms part of a wider conversation about meaning in healthcare.
Semantic Weekly Season #1 — The meaning behind the model
- Semantic Weekly #00 — Why meaning needs its own layer
- Semantic Weekly #01 — CodeSystem
- Semantic Weekly #02 — ValueSet
- Semantic Weekly #03 — ConceptMap
- Semantic Weekly #04 — Expansion
- Semantic Weekly #05 — Validation
- Semantic Weekly #06 — Translation
- Semantic Weekly #07 — Terminology Binding
- Semantic Weekly #08 — FHIR
- Semantic Weekly #09 — Zorginformatiebouwstenen (ZIB)
- Semantic Weekly #10 — Governance (Coming soon)
- Semantic Weekly #11 — Semantic Debt (Coming soon)
- Semantic Weekly #12 — Who owns meaning? (Coming soon)
Semantic Weekly — Season #2 – Meaning in motion (Coming soon)
- Semantic Weekly · S2 #01 — Meaning in motion
- Semantic Weekly · S2 #02 — The same diagnosis. Three different purposes
- Semantic Weekly · S2 #03 — What nursing knows that the data may not
- Semantic Weekly · S2 #04 — A pathology result does not begin with the result
- Semantic Weekly · S2 #05 — When clinical detail becomes a reporting category
- Semantic Weekly · S2 #06 — A quality registry should not be a one-way street
- Semantic Weekly · S2 #07 —A single data platform can still contain many realities
- Semantic Weekly · S2 #08 — Can a cohort be reproducible if its meaning isn’t?
- Semantic Weekly · S2 #09 — One substance. Several identities
- Semantic Weekly · S2 #10 — When AI suggests meaning, who makes it authoritative?
- Semantic Weekly · S2 #11 — EHDS is a destination, not the home of meaning
- Semantic Weekly · S2 #12 — Can the model change while the meaning remains explainable?
