ontology
Berges I et al, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, 99
Although the goal of achieving semantic interoperability of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) is pursued by many researchers, it has not been accomplished yet. In this paper we present a proposal that smoothes out the way towards the achievement of that goal. In particular our work focuses on medical diagnoses statements. In summary the main contributions of our ontology-based proposal are the following: First, it includes a canonical ontology whose EHR-related terms focus on semantic aspects.
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30 December 2011 |
Keyword(s): Electronic Health Records, Ontology, Semantic Interoperability
Maldonado JA et al, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2011
Possibly the most important requirement to support co-operative work among health professionals and institutions is the ability of sharing EHRs in a meaningful way, and it is widely acknowledged that standardization of data and concepts is a prerequisite to achieve semantic interoperability in any domain. Different international organizations are working on the definition of EHR architectures but the lack of tools that implement them hinders their broad adoption. In this paper we present ResearchEHR, a software platform whose objective is to facilitate the practical application of EHR standards as a way of reaching the desired semantic interoperability.
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28 November 2011 |
Keyword(s): Archetype, CEN/ISO 13606, Electronic healthcare records, Ontology, Semantic Interoperability, Standards
Vega LC et al, Health and Technology, 2011
With the exploding growth of the web, health websites have become a dominant force in the realm of health care. Technically savvy patients have been using the web not only to self inform but to self diagnose. In this paper we examine the trust relationship between humans and health websites by outlining the existing literature on trust in health websites. A total of 49 papers were examined using a meta-analytical framework.
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18 November 2011 |
Keyword(s): e-Health, Internet, Ontology, Review, Trust, Websites
Sari AK et al, Knowledge-Based Systems, 2011
The global effort in the standardization of electronic health records has driven the need for a model to allow medical practitioners to interact with the newly standardized medical information system by focusing on the actual medical concepts/processes rather than the underlying data representations. An archetype has been introduced as a model that represents functional health concepts or processes such as admission record, which enables capturing all information relevant to the processes transparently to the users. However, it is necessary to ensure that the archetypes capture accurately all information relevant to the archetype concepts. Therefore, a semantic backbone is required for each of the archetype.
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18 August 2011 |
Keyword(s): Archetype, Electronic health record, Medical Information Systems, Ontology, Semantics, SNOMED CT
Blobel B. e-Health Across Borders Without Boundaries, 2011
Nowadays, eHealth and pHealth solutions have to meet advanced interoperability challenges. Enabling pervasive computing and even autonomic computing, pHealth system architectures cover many domains, scientifically managed by specialized disciplines using their specific ontologies.
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2011 |
Keyword(s): Generic Component Model, Ontology, pHealth, Semantic Interoperability
Puustjarvi J, Puustjarvi L. International Journal of Electronic Healthcare, 6(1)
Patient-centred healthcare subscribes to the belief that the patient has strengths, values and experiences that are important in the healthcare experience and relationship between those providing care and the patient. It requires patients to have the ability to obtain and understand health information, and make appropriate health decisions. The main problem here is that though the e-health applications provide patients and consumer with access to health information, each application is still individually used and the used and produced information remains within each system.
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2011 |
Keyword(s): Finland, information-therapy, Interoperability, Knowledge Management, Ontology, Personal Health, Personal Health Records, Semantic Interoperability
Blobel B. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2010
The paradigm shift from organization-centered to managed care and on to personal health settings increases specialization and distribution of actors and services related to the health of patients or even citizens before becoming patients. As a consequence, extended communication and cooperation is required between all principals involved in health services such as persons, organizations, devices, systems, applications, and components. Personal health (pHealth) environments range over many disciplines, where domain experts present their knowledge by using domain-specific terminologies and ontologies.
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30 October 2010 |
Keyword(s): Architecture, Hospital Information Systems, Ontology, Patient Empowerment, pHealth, Policy, Privacy
Chen J et al, Journal of Medical Systems, 2010
Nowadays, patients usually take more than three drugs for diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, and dyslipidemia. Hence, nuclear medicine physicians should be very careful about the medication history of each patient and ensure that their medication will not cause false positive or false negative imaging results, because either condition will interfere with adequate treatment of the patient and result in a wrong diagnosis. The aim of the present paper is to develop an ontology-based medication search and alert system for scintiphotography of Chang Gung Memorial hospital at Kaohsiung.
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23 July 2010 |
Keyword(s): Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, Nuclear medicine, Ontology, Patient Safety, Search, Taiwan
Bonacina S, Pinciroli F. Medical and Care Compunetics 6, 2010
New services devoted to improve personalized healthcare are emerging from information technology developments. Personal health record systems allow the patients to participate actively in their healthcare process. However, the dissemination and use of personal health record systems face with some barriers, for example low health literacy that leads to discrepancy in understanding medical concepts.
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8 June 2010 |
Keyword(s): Databases, Ontology, Patient-clinician communication, Terminology
Oemig F. Bernd B, Medical and Care Compunetics 6, 2010
Working interoperability not only requires harmonized system’s architectures, but also the same interpretation of technical specifications in order to guide the development process.
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8 June 2010 |
Keyword(s): Communication, Generic Component Model, HL7, Interoperability, Ontology, Standards
MartÃnez-Costa C. et al, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 43(5)
The communication between health information systems of hospitals and primary care organizations is currently an important challenge to improve the quality of clinical practice and patient safety. However, clinical information is usually distributed amongst several independent systems that may be syntactically or semantically incompatible. This fact prevents healthcare professionals from accessing clinical information of patients in an understandable and normalized way.
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1 June 2010 |
Keyword(s): Archetypes, Electronic Health Records, Model-driven Engineering, Ontology, openEHR, Semantic Interoperability
Blobel B, Methods of Information in Medicine, 49(2)
Objectives:
For improving safety and quality of care as well as efficiency of health delivery under the well-known burdens, health services become specialized, distributed, and therefore collaborative, thereby changing the health service paradigm from organization-centered over process-controlled to personal health (pHealth).
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5 February 2010 |
Keyword(s): Architecture, Knowledge representation, Ontology, Personal Health, Semantic Interoperability, Ubiquitous Healthcare
Du, Timon C. et al, Decision Support Systems, 47(4)
In recent years, the Internet has become one of the most important sources of information, and it is now imperative that companies are able to collect, retrieve, process, and manage information from the Web. However, due to the sheer amount of information available, browsing web content by searches using keywords is inefficient, largely because unstructured HTML web pages are written for human comprehension and not for direct machine processing. For the same reason, the degree of web automation is limited. It is recognized that semantics can enhance web automation, but it will take an indefinite amount of effort to convert the current HTML Web into the Semantic Web. This study proposes a novel ontology extractor, called OntoSpider, for extracting ontology from the HTML Web.
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9 March 2009 |
Keyword(s): Knowledge Management, Ontology, Semantic Web, Web Services
Marenco, Luis et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 16(5)
Objective:
To devise an automated approach for integrating federated database information using database ontologies constructed from their extended metadata.
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30 June 2009 |
Keyword(s): Databases, Metadata, Ontology, SNOMED CT, United States
Blobel, Bernd et al, Medical Informatics in a United and Healthy Europe, 2009
As health systems around the world turn towards highly distributed, specialized and cooperative structures to increase quality and safety of care as well as efficiency and efficacy of delivery processes, there is a growing need for supporting communication and collaboration of all parties involved with advanced ICT solutions. The Electronic Health Record (EHR) provides the information platform which is maturing towards the eHealth core application. To meet the requirements for sustainable, semantically interoperable, and trustworthy EHR solutions, different standards and different national strategies have been established.
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2009 |
Keyword(s): Architecture, Electronic Health Records, Ontology, Semantic Interoperability, Standards, Strategy
Jalali, Vahid, and Mohammad Matash Borujerdi,
There is a huge growth in the volume of published biomedical research in recent years. Many medical search engines are designed and developed to address the over growing information needs of biomedical experts and curators. Significant progress has been made in utilizing the knowledge embedded in medical ontologies and controlled vocabularies to assist these engines. However, the lack of common architecture for utilized ontologies and overall retrieval process, hampers evaluating different search engines and interoperability between them under unified conditions.
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25 August 2009 |
Keyword(s): Biomedicine, Information Retrieval, Ontology, OWL, Search, Semantic, Semantic Web
Brochhausen M, Slaughter L. IFMBE Proceedings 2009, 25/12
Keeping patients informed on their electronic health records is a crucial aspect of patient empowerment with respect to eHealth solutions. However, this task is becoming increasingly difficult due to the mobility of patients who are moving between different healthcare systems that are possibly based on different languages and possibly using different coding systems.
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September 2009 |
Keyword(s): e-Health, Electronic Health Records, Ontology, Patient Empowerment, Patient Information
Blobel, Bernd, and Frank Oemig, IFMBE Proceedings 2009, 25/12
eHealth and pHealth solutions have to meet the semantic interoperability challenge. Enabling pervasive computing and even autonomic computing, pHealth system architectures cover many domains, scientifically managed by specialized disciplines using their specific ontologies. Therefore, semantic interoperability has to advance from a communication protocol to an ontology bridging challenge. The paper addresses this challenge using the Generic Component Model architecture framework.
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September 2009 |
Keyword(s): Generic Component Model, Ontology, Semantic Interoperability
Ganguly, Sukanta et al, Telemedicine and e-Health, 15(3)
Information and data sharing across heterogeneous e-health systems, focusing on the management of patient care, have become the backbone of modern delivery of sustainable telemedicine services. Information and data available to healthcare practitioners in such environments range from patient’s medical records, stored in repositories at places where patients have been treated, to a variety of information related to medical research, pharmaceutical products, or information stored within social networks of healthcare interest groups.
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23 June 2009 |
Keyword(s): Data Retrieval, e-Health, Electronic Health Records, Information Management, Interoperability, Ontology, Semantic
Puustjarvi, Juha, and Leena Puustjarvi, International Journal of Electronic Healthcare, Vol. 5, No. 1
The technology developed for interoperable autonomous systems has significantly changed during the past few years. In particular, XML is rapidly becoming the key standard for data representation and transportation. However, the introduction of XML is not enough but many other XML-based technologies have to be deployed in order to achieve a seamless interoperability between the organisations of the healthcare sector.
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2009 |
Keyword(s): Electronic Prescribing, Health Information Systems, Interoperability, Messaging, Ontology, Pharmaceutical, RDF, Semantic, Semantic Interoperability, XML
