Using ontologies for structuring organizational knowledge in Home Care assistance

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 370-387

  Valls, Aida ^a   Gibert, Karina ^b   Sánchez, David ^a   Batet, Montserrat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Distributed systems; Home Care services; Knowledge representation; Medical informatics; Ontologies; Organizational models; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED KNOWLEDGE; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; E-HEALTH SYSTEMS; EHEALTH; END USERS; EUROPEAN PROJECT; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEALTH CARE APPLICATION; HEALTH SYSTEMS; HEALTHCARE ENVIRONMENTS; HEALTHCARE INSTITUTIONS; HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS; HOME CARE; HOME-CARE SERVICES; INTERACTION MODEL; KEY COMPONENT; KNOWLEDGE GAPS; MAIN COMPONENT; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE; ONTOLOGICAL PROFILES; ONTOLOGY DESIGN; ONTOLOGY ENGINEERING; ONTOLOGY LANGUAGE; ORGANIZATIONAL KNOWLEDGE; ORGANIZATIONAL MODELS; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES; PERSONALIZATIONS; SOFTWARE COMPONENT; SOFTWARE TOOL; STRATEGIC GOALS; WORK EFFICIENCY;

COMPLEXATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; LINGUISTICS; QUERY LANGUAGES; REUSABILITY; TELEMEDICINE;

ONTOLOGY;

AGING; ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EUROPE; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; METHODOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATABASES AS TOPIC; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; HOME CARE SERVICES, HOSPITAL-BASED; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED;

EID: 77949915975     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2010.01.012     Document Type: Article

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