Ontologies for the representation of electronic medical records: the obstetric and neonatal ontology
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Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
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Ontology is an interdisciplinary field that involves both the
use of philosophical principles and the development of
computational artifacts. As artifacts, ontologies can have
diverse applications in knowledge management, information retrieval, and information systems, to mention a few.
They have been largely applied to organize information in
complex fields like Biomedicine. In this article, we present
the OntoNeo Ontology, an initiative to build a formal ontology in the obstetrics and neonatal domain. OntoNeo is a
resource that has been designed to serve as a comprehensive infrastructure providing scientific research and healthcare professionals with access to relevant information.
The goal of OntoNeo is twofold: (a) to organize specialized
medical knowledge, and (b) to provide a potential consensual representation of the medical information found in
electronic health records and medical information systems. To describe our initiative, we first provide background information about distinct theories underlying
ontology, top-level computational ontologies and their
applications in Biomedicine. Then, we present the methodology employed in the development of OntoNeo and the
results obtained to date. Finally, we discuss the applicability of OntoNeo by presenting a proof of concept that illustrates its potential usefulness in the realm of healthcare
information systems.
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Ciência da informação, Ontologia, Representação da informação, Sistemas de organização do conhecimento, Biomedicina
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Ontologia, Sistemas de organização do conhecimento, Representação da informação, Representação do conhecimento, Biomedicina
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.23900/full