Using ontology to support context awareness in healthcare

Wen Yao; Chao Hsien Chu; Akhil Kumar; Zang Li

Using ontology to support context awareness in healthcare

Wen Yao
, Chao Hsien Chu
, Akhil Kumar
, Zang Li

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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)
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

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Other	19th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, WITS 2009
Country/Territory	United States
City	Phoenix, AZ
Period	12/14/09 → 12/15/09

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Information Systems
Control and Systems Engineering

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