Ontology-based clinical pathways with semantic rules

Journal of Medical Systems

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2203-2212

  Hu, Zhen ^a   Li, Jing Song ^a   Zhou, Tian Shu ^a   Yu, Hai Yan ^a   Suzuki, Muneou ^b   Araki, Kenji ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Clinical pathways; EMR; Ontology; Semantic rules

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PATHWAY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; SEMANTICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HEALTH CARE QUALITY;

CRITICAL PATHWAYS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84873042046     PISSN: 01485598     EISSN: 1573689X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10916-011-9687-0     Document Type: Article

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