Representing clinical knowledge in oral medicine using ontologies
Gustafsson, M.; Falkman, G.ör.
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 116: 743-748
2005
ISSN/ISBN: 1879-8365 PMID: 16160347 Document Number: 587072
How can information technology be used to model and handle clinical knowledge in everyday work so that clinicians can more systematically learn from collected clinical data? Ontology is a crucial element in answering this question. Based on nearly ten years of clinical experience, fundamental requirements of an ontology for oral medicine are presented. The use of the proposed W3C standards RDF and OWL for the design and implementation of an ontology for oral medicine is then described and discussed. The reported work contributes to knowledge representation in oral medicine by presenting the pioneering work towards an ontology for oral medicine using RDF/OWL, thereby testing the latter on a new domain.