An Ontology of Therapies

Claudio Eccher; Antonella Ferro; Domenico Pisanelli

Electronic Healthcare. Second International ICST Conference, eHealth 2009, Istanbul, Turkey, September 23-15, 2009, Revised Selected Papers

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An Ontology of Therapies

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-11745-9_22,
    author={Claudio Eccher and Antonella Ferro and Domenico Pisanelli},
    title={An Ontology of Therapies},
    proceedings={Electronic Healthcare. Second International ICST Conference, eHealth 2009, Istanbul, Turkey, September 23-15, 2009, Revised Selected Papers},
    proceedings_a={E-HEALTH},
    year={2012},
    month={5},
    keywords={ontology therapy EPR NCI thesaurus},
    doi={10.1007/978-3-642-11745-9_22}
}

Claudio Eccher
Antonella Ferro
Domenico Pisanelli
Year: 2012
An Ontology of Therapies
E-HEALTH
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-11745-9_22

Claudio Eccher¹, Antonella Ferro², Domenico Pisanelli³

1: FBK-irst
2: Medical Oncology Unit, S.Chiara Hospital
3: CNR-Institute of Cognitive Science and Technologies

Abstract

Ontologies are the essential glue to build interoperable systems and the talk of the day in the medical community. In this paper we present the ontology of medical therapies developed in the course of the Oncocure project, aimed at building a guideline based decision support integrated with a legacy Electronic Patient Record (EPR). The therapy ontology is based upon the DOLCE top level ontology. It is our opinion that our ontology, besides constituting a model capturing the precise meaning of therapy-related concepts, can serve for several practical purposes: interfacing automatic support systems with a legacy EPR, allowing the automatic data analysis, and controlling possible medical errors made during EPR data input.

Keywords: ontology therapy EPR NCI thesaurus

Published: 2012-05-28

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11745-9_22