A four stage approach for ontology-based health information system design

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 133-148

  Kuziemsky, Craig E ^a   Lau, Francis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Contextualization; Grounded theory; Health information system; Ontology; Participatory design; Problem solving approach

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL DOMAIN; COMPUTER BASED TOOLS; CONTEXTUALIZATION; DOMAIN ONTOLOGIES; GROUNDED THEORY; HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEM; HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS; METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH; ONTOLOGY DESIGN; ONTOLOGY DEVELOPMENT; ONTOLOGY-BASED; PARTICIPATORY DESIGN; PROTOTYPING; THREE PROBLEMS; USABILITY TESTING;

COMPUTER TESTING; DESIGN; HEALTH; HYBRID MATERIALS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; PROBLEM SOLVING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

ONTOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; GROUNDED THEORY; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 78149468950     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2010.04.012     Document Type: Article

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