Integrating Healthcare Knowledge Artifacts for Clinical Decision Support: Towards SemanticWeb Based Healthcare Knowledge Morphing

摘要

Healthcare decision making demands the systematic integration of knowledge from multiple sources, such as clinical guidelines, clinical pathways, knowledge of practitioners and so on. We present a semantic web based approach for synthesizing health knowledge through the semantic modeling of healthcare knowledge as ontologies and reasoning over the ontologies to derive a morphed knowledge object. We demonstrate the application of our approach by generating morphed knowledge about prostate cancer clinical pathways.