TY - GEN
T1 - Using OWL ontologies for clinical guidelines based comorbid decision support
AU - Abidi, Samina
AU - Cox, Jafna
AU - Abidi, S. Sibte Raza
AU - Shepherd, Michael
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - In this paper we present an ontology-based clinical decision-support framework for handling comorbidities by alignment of ontology modeled clinical practice guidelines (CPG). Our knowledge management approach to develop clinical decision support systems for co-morbid conditions entails: (a) knowledge synthesis to derive disease-specific clinical pathways (CP) from evidence-bases sources; (b) knowledge modeling to abstract medical and procedural knowledge from the CP; (c) knowledge representation to computerize the CP in terms of a CP ontology; and (d) knowledge alignment by aligning multiple CP to develop a unified CP knowledge model for comorbid diseases. We present the COMET (Co-morbidity Ontological Modeling & ExecuTion) system that provides decision support to handle comorbid chronic heart failure and atrial fibrillation. COMET is web-accessible and is designed for family practitioners.
AB - In this paper we present an ontology-based clinical decision-support framework for handling comorbidities by alignment of ontology modeled clinical practice guidelines (CPG). Our knowledge management approach to develop clinical decision support systems for co-morbid conditions entails: (a) knowledge synthesis to derive disease-specific clinical pathways (CP) from evidence-bases sources; (b) knowledge modeling to abstract medical and procedural knowledge from the CP; (c) knowledge representation to computerize the CP in terms of a CP ontology; and (d) knowledge alignment by aligning multiple CP to develop a unified CP knowledge model for comorbid diseases. We present the COMET (Co-morbidity Ontological Modeling & ExecuTion) system that provides decision support to handle comorbid chronic heart failure and atrial fibrillation. COMET is web-accessible and is designed for family practitioners.
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U2 - 10.1109/HICSS.2012.629
DO - 10.1109/HICSS.2012.629
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84857951327
SN - 9780769545257
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
SP - 3030
EP - 3038
BT - Proceedings of the 45th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS-45
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 2012 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2012
Y2 - 4 January 2012 through 7 January 2012
ER -