TY - GEN
T1 - An ontological modeling approach to align institution-specific clinical pathways
T2 - 25th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, CBMS 2012
AU - Abidi, Samina Raza
AU - Abidi, Syed Sibte Raza
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - In this paper we pursue the standardization of care, for a specific medical condition, across multiple institutions through the alignment of institution-specific clinical pathways. Our approach is to represent institution-specific Clinical Pathways (CP) using an ontological model and then align the common care activities between multiple CP, based on their semantic descriptions, to generate a 'maximally standardized' care model that merges common care activities whilst allowing to administer unique institution-specific care activities. Our semantic web based approach is used to develop a standardized prostate cancer care model for three Canadian institutions, such that the standardized model can be executed via a web-based system to streamline patient care.
AB - In this paper we pursue the standardization of care, for a specific medical condition, across multiple institutions through the alignment of institution-specific clinical pathways. Our approach is to represent institution-specific Clinical Pathways (CP) using an ontological model and then align the common care activities between multiple CP, based on their semantic descriptions, to generate a 'maximally standardized' care model that merges common care activities whilst allowing to administer unique institution-specific care activities. Our semantic web based approach is used to develop a standardized prostate cancer care model for three Canadian institutions, such that the standardized model can be executed via a web-based system to streamline patient care.
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U2 - 10.1109/CBMS.2012.6266392
DO - 10.1109/CBMS.2012.6266392
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84867302278
SN - 9781467320511
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems
BT - Proceedings of the 25th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, CBMS 2012
Y2 - 20 June 2012 through 22 June 2012
ER -