Implementing Thyroid Ontology for Diagnosis and Care

摘要

Healthcare systems are changing their information systems with the increased advances in information technologies. With these improvements, patients expectations are also increased. Consequently, patients expect a quick diagnosis process and improvement in the treatment process. Additionally, it is important to share and reuse patients' information between different healthcare organizations and healthcare workers. There are lots of data standards and ontologies developed in the health domain. In this work, we propose a thyroid ontology for the diagnosis and care of the thyroid-related diseases. The proposed thyroid ontology will be a part of the Semantic Web based health information system in order to provide interoperability and reuse of health data. The proposed thyroid ontology can be used for treatment suggestion systems. Therefore, the healthcare decision support system will be improved.