Ontology-based information integration in health care: a focus on palliative care

C. Kuziemsky, Francis Y. Lau, Iryna Bilykh, J. Weber, G. McCallum, Christina Obry, A. Onabajo, G. Downing
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Electronic information integration has the potential to rationalise and improve business processes in many public and private sectors. A key challenge in any information integration task is to resolve the heterogeneity among the semantic terminologies used in the various information sources to be integrated. This paper describes how ontologies can be developed to achieve this resolution of semantic heterogeneity. We discuss a case study with a particular focus in the application domain of health care, namely palliative care. We begin by describing the methodology upon which our ontology is designed. The methodology description includes details on the conceptual framework and formalization of the framework to design our ontology. We then illustrate proposed implementation of the ontology in two ways. First, we show its use in creating patient specific clinical practice guidelines. Second, we describe the use of the ontology in palliative care systems by showing how it can assist in database design, decision support, and act as knowledge management tool for facilitating information sharing.
医疗保健中基于本体的信息集成:对姑息治疗的关注
电子信息集成有可能使许多公共和私营部门的业务流程合理化和改进。任何信息集成任务中的一个关键挑战是解决要集成的各种信息源中使用的语义术语之间的异构性。本文描述了如何开发本体来实现语义异构的解决。我们讨论了一个案例研究,特别关注医疗保健的应用领域,即姑息治疗。我们首先描述设计本体论所依据的方法论。方法描述包括详细的概念框架和框架的形式化来设计我们的本体。然后,我们以两种方式说明提出的本体实现。首先,我们展示了它在创建患者特定临床实践指南中的应用。其次,我们描述了本体在姑息治疗系统中的使用,展示了它如何帮助数据库设计,决策支持,并作为促进信息共享的知识管理工具。
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