Combining ontologies and cognitive engineering to innovate electronic health records

International Journal of Innovation Science

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 29-38

  Little, Eric ^a  

^a Computer Task Group ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

cognitive engineering; electronic health records; knowledge management; life sciences; ontology; semantics

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE ENGINEERING; COGNITIVE WORK ANALYSIS; EHR SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; LIFE SCIENCES; MEDICAL INFORMATION; ONTOLOGICAL APPROACH; WORK ENVIRONMENTS;

HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN ENGINEERING; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; ONTOLOGY; RECORDS MANAGEMENT; SEMANTICS;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 79954491361     PISSN: 17572223     EISSN: 17572231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/1757-2223.2.1.29     Document Type: Article

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