Authors:
Arkalgud Ramaprasad
1
;
Annette L. Valenta
1
and
Ian Brooks
2
Affiliations:
1
University of Illinois at Chicago, United States
;
2
National Center for Supercomputing Applications, United States
Keyword(s):
Clinical and translational science, Informatics, Ontology, Ontological analysis.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Biomedical Engineering
;
Cardiovascular Technologies
;
Computing and Telecommunications in Cardiology
;
Data Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Health Engineering and Technology Applications
;
Health Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Knowledge Management
;
Medical and Nursing Informatics
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Society, e-Business and e-Government
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
Abstract:
Clinical and Translational Science (CTS) is a new and emerging academic discipline which seeks to reduce (a) the time-to-application of research to, and (b) the time-to-research of, health care problems. Translating information within and between the research and practice silos is central to CTS. The role of CTS Informatics (CTSI) can be stated as ‘translating information to transform health care’. We present an ontological analysis of the transformation of health care by CTSI. The five dimensions of the ontology are derived by parsing the above definition of CTSI. They are: (a) information, (b) semiotic translation, (c) spatial translation, (d) temporal translation, and (e) health care. Each dimension is defined by a taxonomy. Each sentence, formed by concatenating categories across the five dimensions using appropriate prefixes and conjunctive words and phrases, is a natural language descriptor of CTSI. The set of all such sentences is a closed description of CTSI.