An ontology-based mediator of clinical information for decision support systems: A prototype of a clinical alert system for prescriptions

Methods of Information in Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 549-559

  Kawazoe, Yoshimasa ^a   Ohe, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Decision support system; Mediator; Ontology; Web Ontology Language

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; SEMANTICS;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES AS TOPIC; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DECISION MAKING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; INTERNET; JAPAN; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; PILOT PROJECTS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 57749184726     PISSN: 00261270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3414/ME9126     Document Type: Article

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