Modeling of Clinical Pathways Based on Ontology

摘要：

Implementing Electronic Clinical Pathways (ECPs) is important and necessary in the digitalized hospital. ECPs could not only improve the efficiency and quality of patient care, but also help medical staffs to share vast medical information, which is difficult with paperbased pathways. So computerization of paper-based Pathways is the key point in executing the ECPs, however, there are no general methods to represent Clinical Pathways. The objective of this study is to adopt the ontological approach to capture and represent the Clinical Pathways. We analysis the structures and characteristics of 10 Clinical Pathways and try to build a Clinical Pathway Ontology, which is constituted by four main units: (i) Timeline; (ii) Category of Care; (iii) Outcome Criteria; (iv) Variance Record. This Clinical Pathway Ontology will make a great contribution to design the ontologybased ECPs prototype integrated into Electronic Medical Record.

作者: HU Zhen LI Jing-song YU Hai-yan ZHANG Xiao-guang SUZUKI Muneou ARAKI Kenji

作者单位: Healthcare Informatics Engineering Research Center, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou,310027, China Department of Medical Informatics, Miyazaki University Hospital, Japan

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2009 IEEE International Symposium on IT in Medicine & Education( IEEE 教育与医药信息化国际会议)

会议地点: 济南

会议语种:英文

页码: 1170-1174

在线出版日期: 2009-08-14（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）