Patient Centric Ontology for Telehealth Domain

Daniel Bjerring Jørgensen, Kasper Hallenborg, Yves Demazeau

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingArticle in proceedingsResearchpeer-review

Abstract

This paper presents an ontology for the telehealth domain, a domain that concerns the use of telecommunication to support and deliver health related services e.g. patient monitoring and rehabilitative training. Our vision for the future of telehealth solutions is that they adapt their behavior to the needs, habits, and personality of the patient through user modeling and context awareness. The ontology will be our foundation for user modeling of patients in the telehealth domain, and hence it is one of the initial steps toward our vision. Compared to other ontologies within the domain, ours has explicit focus on: 1) personality traits of the patient, which is vital for fulfillment of our vision in term of adaptability, and 2) use of international standards to describe diseases, func-tioning and physiological measurement – ICD, ICF and SNOMED respectively – to promote interoperability with external systems. Besides being the foundation for user modeling, the ontology is a component in the Patient@home infra-structure, where it will ease the integration of applications to the platform, and facilitate semantic interoperability between the applications.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInclusive Smart Cities and e-Health : 13th International Conference On Smart homes and health Telematics (ICOST)
EditorsAntoine Geissbühler, Jacques Demongeot, Mounir Mokhtari, Bessam Abdulrazak, Hamdi Aloulou
PublisherSpringer
Publication dateJun 2015
Pages244-255
Chapter20
ISBN (Print)978-3-319-19311-3
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-319-19312-0
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2015
Event13th International Conference On Smart homes and health Telematics: Inclusive Smart Cities and e-Health - Geneva, Switzerland
Duration: 10. Jun 201512. Jun 2015

Conference

Conference13th International Conference On Smart homes and health Telematics
Country/TerritorySwitzerland
CityGeneva
Period10/06/201512/06/2015
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 9102
ISSN0302-9743

Keywords

  • Ontology
  • Personalization
  • Telehealth infrastructure
  • user modeling

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Patient Centric Ontology for Telehealth Domain'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this