ENABLING INTEROPERABILITY THROUGH AN ONTOLOGY APPROACH IN THE HETEROGENEOUS DOMAINS OF COMPLEX CHRONIC CONDITIONS

Tara Sampalli, Michael Shepherd, Jack Duffy

2012

Abstract

Complex and chronic health conditions have domain knowledge that is multidisciplinary, inconsistent, non-standardized and poorly categorized making them heterogeneous. Consequently, challenges for collaborative care management are widely prevalent due to lack of interoperability. Ontologies have come to the forefront as effective method to improve interoperability in a domain due to their ability to enable higher levels of specification. The primary objective of this study was to develop, test and evaluate a model and a methodology for creating ontologies in heterogeneous domains of complex conditions, an area where there is great paucity for research. The methodology in this research applied a two-staged approach for enabling interoperability in the heterogeneous domain of two complex chronic health conditions, namely, multiple chemical sensitivity and chronic pain. Four hundred and eight and three hundred forty five multidisciplinary concepts were specified in the profile ontologies for multiple chemical sensitivity and chronic pain. A testing and an evaluation process conducted in this research demonstrated that a high percentage of the multidisciplinary clinicians (>80%) agreed on the overall usefulness of the ontologies in improving the collaborative environment. The results from the research are promising in terms of the potential applications of ontologies in heterogeneous knowledge domains.

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Sampalli T., Shepherd M. and Duffy J. (2012). ENABLING INTEROPERABILITY THROUGH AN ONTOLOGY APPROACH IN THE HETEROGENEOUS DOMAINS OF COMPLEX CHRONIC CONDITIONS . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2012) ISBN 978-989-8425-88-1, pages 46-52. DOI: 10.5220/0003744700460052


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@conference{healthinf12,
author={Tara Sampalli and Michael Shepherd and Jack Duffy},
title={ENABLING INTEROPERABILITY THROUGH AN ONTOLOGY APPROACH IN THE HETEROGENEOUS DOMAINS OF COMPLEX CHRONIC CONDITIONS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={46-52},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003744700460052},
isbn={978-989-8425-88-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2012)
TI - ENABLING INTEROPERABILITY THROUGH AN ONTOLOGY APPROACH IN THE HETEROGENEOUS DOMAINS OF COMPLEX CHRONIC CONDITIONS
SN - 978-989-8425-88-1
AU - Sampalli T.
AU - Shepherd M.
AU - Duffy J.
PY - 2012
SP - 46
EP - 52
DO - 10.5220/0003744700460052