An ontology-based hierarchical semantic modeling approach to clinical pathway workflows
This paper proposes an ontology-based approach of modeling clinical pathway workflows at the semantic level for facilitating computerized clinical pathway implementation and efficient delivery of high-quality healthcare services.A clinical pathway ontology(CPO)is formally defined in OWL web ontology language (OWL)to provide common semantic foundation for meaningful representation and exchange of pathway-related knowledge.ACPO-based semantic modeling method is then presented to describe clinical pathways as interconnected hierarchical models including the top-level outcome flow and intervention workflow level along a care timeline.Furthermore,relevant temporal knowledge can be fully represented by combing temporal entities in CPO and temporal rules based on semantic web rule language(SWRL).An illustrative example about a clinical pathway for cesarean section shows the applicability of the proposed methodology in enabling structured semantic descriptions of any real clinical pathway.
Ontology Clinical pathway Knowledge semantics Workflow Temporal representation
Yan Ye Zhibin Jiang Xiaodi Diao Dong Yang Gang Du
Department of Industrial Engineering & Logistics Management,Shanghai Jiao Tong University,800 Dong C Department of Industrial Engineering & Logistics Management,Shanghai Jiao Tong University,800 Dong C Putuo District Center Hospital,200062 Shanghai,China
国内会议
南京
英文
1-11
2013-11-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）