Semantic Web Technology for Mapping and Applying Clinical Functional Assessment Information.

摘要

We report on the progress of the project during the Feb 2013 Feb 2014 period of the contract. During the year, we interviewed Madigan Army Medical Center collaborators to learn about their Integrated Disability Evaluation System. We found that the documentation related to functional assessment is in PDF and it's difficult to de-identify and export in structured format. We analyzed retention standards, Disability Benefit Questionnaires, the Military Occupation Specialties manual, and the Department of Veteran Affairs schedule for rating disabilities, and developed a framework for structuring and using functional assessment information. Within this framework, we modeled as OWL ontologies descriptions of functional assessments and their value sets and created data models for patient-specific data and for assessment forms such as DBQs. We map the functional assessments descriptors to ICF categories and qualifiers, and used the SWRL rules to transform CFACL coded data to ICF formats, when such transformations are possible.