Abstract
The advances in ubiquitous computing enabled by Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies and heterogeneous embedded sensors have a great impact on the delivery of healthcare services in hospitals. RFID facilitates the capture of context information. In this paper, we propose a Context-embedded Intelligent Hospital Ontology (CIHO) to support semantic interoperability and context-aware applications using OWL-DL, a Web Ontology Language. The CIHO model provides a formal description of the healthcare domain and supports logic-based context reasoning. For illustration and validation, we conduct sample ontology reasoning and evaluate the quality of the CIHO model with a semiotic metrics suite. By managing the heterogeneous nature of software applications and providing context-aware services, hospitals can benefit a lot from improved patient safety and facilitated hospital personnel collaboration.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | 19th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, WITS 2009 |
Publisher | Social Science Research Network |
Pages | 43-48 |
Number of pages | 6 |
State | Published - 2009 |
Event | 19th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, WITS 2009 - Phoenix, AZ, United States Duration: Dec 14 2009 → Dec 15 2009 |
Other
Other | 19th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, WITS 2009 |
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Country/Territory | United States |
City | Phoenix, AZ |
Period | 12/14/09 → 12/15/09 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Information Systems
- Control and Systems Engineering