Upper-level Ontologies for Health Information Systems

Abstract

The research demonstrates the applicability of archetype patterns to ontology development in HIS. While numerous ontologies exist in biomedicine, there are few well-developed ontologies for general healthcare. Properly modeled, archetype patterns have potential to reconcile the differences in high-level design views across health care inter-enterprises. Future research can focus on governance, standards and tools for archetype patterns, as well as development of a comprehensive set of high-level healthcare archetype patterns.

On Robust Methodologies for Managing Public Health Care Systems

“…Conceptualization is a simplified view of abstraction, but needs to be represented in knowledge domains, so that they can easily be integrated and shared by other related domains. Web ontology languages or even the existing archetype patters of high levels ontology descriptions [6], are used for describing semantics, schema, and syntaxes including system specifications and representations. They also address different naming conventions, vocabularies and contents including conflicts and ambiguities that arise during conceptualization of dimesions and structuring procedures and processes.…”

“…Statistical procedures used for mining of correlations, patterns and trends among data sources offer consistent results for interpretation and evaluation of models. Archetype patterns and already existing high-level ontologies [6] can also be integrated in a warehouse environment that can fit within in our proposed integrated framework. …”

“…Keeping in view the variety of users, doctors, dieticians and professionals involved in preventive care, a systematic approach involving ontology-based data integration is needed. Archetype patterns [6] used with high level ontology abstraction, at global scale are analyzed, keeping in view bio-informatics and health-care domains on a geographic scale [7]. …”

“…Exhaustive documentation in a warehouse environment facilitates access to the patients’ hereditary histories including remedies. Even users of archetype patterns narrated in [6] can interact and incorporate their ontology descriptions using our robust integrated framework. …”