Detecting Dominant Alternative Interventions to Reduce Treatment Costs

López-Vallverdú, Joan Albert; Riaño, David; Collado, Antoni

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-27697-2_10

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“…SPARQL is a language to manipulate RDF 3 data in the Web. Paper [53] uses semantic web technologies to evaluate care actions from computer interpretable guidelines and to detect potential contradictions in the personalization process, while [56] uses semantic web technology for reasoning with a hierarchy of medical actions and treatment data to detect dominant alternative interventions in order to analyze feasible cost reduction. Self-management is the application of semantic web in [30] where a social cognition theory is modelled in the form of an OWL-DL ontology.…”

Section: Semantic Web Semantic Relations Semantic Approach; Owl; Spmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ten years of knowledge representation for health care (2009–2018): Topics, trends, and challenges

Riaño

Peleg

Teije

2019

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

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Background: In the last ten years, the international workshop on knowledge representation for health care (KR4HC) has hosted outstanding contributions of the artificial intelligence in medicine community pertaining to the formalization and representation of medical knowledge for supporting clinical care. Contributions regarding modeling languages, technologies and methodologies to produce these models, their incorporation into medical decision support systems, and practical applications in concrete medical settings have been the main contributions and the basis to define the evolution of this field across Europe and worldwide. Objectives: Carry out a review of the papers accepted in KR4HC in the 2009-2018 decade, analyze and characterize the topics and trends within this field, and identify challenges for the evolution of the area in the near future. Methods: We reviewed the title, the abstract, and the keywords of the 112 papers that were accepted to the workshop, identified the medical and technological topics involved in these works, provided a classification of these papers in medical and technological perspectives and obtained the timeline of these topics in order to determine interest growths and declines. The experience of the authors in the field and the evidences after the review were the basis to propose a list of challenges of knowledge representation in health care for the future. Results: The most generic knowledge representation methods are ontologies (31%), semantic web related formalisms (26%), decision tables and rules (19%), logic (14%), and probabilistic models (10%). From a medical informatics perspective, knowledge is mainly represented as computer interpretable clinical guidelines (43%), medical domain ontologies (26%), and electronic health care records (22%). Within the knowledge lifecycle, contributions are found in knowledge generation (38%), knowledge specification (24%), exception detection and management (12%), knowledge enactment (8%), temporal knowledge and reasoning (7%), and knowledge sharing and maintenance (7%). The clinical emphasis of knowledge is mainly related to clinical treatments (27%), diagnosis (13%), clinical quality indicators (13%), and guideline integration for multimorbid patients (12%). According to the level of development of the works presented, we distinguished four maturity levels: formal (22%), implementation (52%), testing (13%), and deployment (2%) levels. Some papers described technologies for specific clinical issues or diseases, mainly cancer (22%) and diseases of the circulatory system (20%). Chronicity and comorbidity were present in 10% and 8% of the papers, respectively. Conclusions: KR4HC is a stable community, still active after ten years. A persistent focus has been knowledge representation, with an emphasis on semantic-web ontologies and on clinical-guideline based decision-support. Among others, two topics receive growing attention: integration of computer-interpretable guideline knowledge for the management of multimorbidity patients, and patie...

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Section: Semantic Web Semantic Relations Semantic Approach; Owl; Spmentioning

confidence: 99%