OOA-HLS: The Healthcare and Life Sciences Domain Chapter

Healthcare and Life Sciences is one of the first domains in which the need for ontologies to advance science on the one hand, and to make better applications on the other hand, has been understood. The OOA-HLS chapter aims to develop, recommend and promote quality guidelines for ontology content and tools. The current focus topics of the OOA-HLS chapter includes:

• Ontologies in Biomedicine and bioinformatics.
• Ontologies of diseases, nursing, therapeutics, drug, etc.
• Upper level concepts of healthcare and life sciences ontologies.
• Semantic metadata for Clinical Data Interchange.
• Semantics of medical XML standards and vocabularies.
• Multilinguality in Biomedicine and bioinformatics ontologies.
• Best practice and semantic patterns in ontology modeling and evaluation

Contact:
Werner Ceusters, Werner.Ceusters@Ontology-Advisory.org , The OOA-HLS Chair

Ongoing Activities:
Quality Guidelines for Ontology Authoring
The Use Cases Studio
The OnToContent 2007 workshop

Previous Activities:
The OnToContent 2006 workshop

The Use Case Studio

This is a living place where successful use cases are collected, discussed, and promoted to industry. Research Labs are invited to submit eHealth use cases. industrial parties are encouraged to place comments and interact with uses cases authors.

To properly describe the various ontological challenges in the eHealth domain and to better match these challenges with existing solutions, this activity aims to collect successful use cases from academia and promote them to industry. The idea is not only to collect use cases and publish them at the OOA website regularly but also to promote these use cases at the annual industrial events of the OOA. industrial parties are encouraged to place comments and interact with uses cases authors.

Research Labs are invited to submit eHealth use cases, demonstrating the problem, the solution, and the key benefits of the semantic web technology. Please follow the structure provided below.

Activity chair:
Dr. Zhisheng Huang
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Email: huang at cs.vu.nl

Selection Committee (TBA)
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The Use Cases

Use Case1: Intensive Care
Formalized Terminologies to support tasks at Intensive Care Units of Hospitals (DICE/I-Catcher).
By: Michel Klein and Ronald Cornet. June 2007.

Use Case2: OpenKnowledge
Using the OpenKnowledge System to Ease Re-use Algorithms in the Proteomics Domain.
By:George Anadiotis, Paolo Besana, David Dupplaw, Dietlind Geldoff, Frank van Harmelen, Spyros Kotoulas, Adrian Perreau de Pinninck, Dave Robertson and Ronny Siebes. June 2007.

Use Case3: Drug Ontology
Drug Ontology Project for Elsevier (DOPE).
By: Anita de Waard (Elsevier), Christiaan Fluit (Aduna) and Frank van Harmelen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam). June 2007.

Use Case4: Medical Guidelines and Protocols
Integrating formal methods in the development process of medical guidelines and protocols.
By: Radu Serban, Annette ten Teije, and Frank van Harmelen. June 2007.

Use Case5: Clinical Trials
Vague modeling for Evaluating Clinical Trials
By:Stefan Schlobach, Linda Peelen, and Michel Klein. June 2007.

Use Case6: Public Health Situation Awareness
Semantic Web Technology for Public Health Situation Awareness.
By: The School of Health Information Sciences, University of Texas, United States. June 2007.

Use Case7: Traditional Chinese Medicine
Semantic-based Search and Query System for the Traditional Chinese Medicine Community.
By: Zhejiang University and China Academy of Chinese Medicine Sciences, China. June 2007.

Use Case8:Radiological Procedure Orders
Using Semantic Web and Proof Technologies to Reduce Errors in Radiological Procedure Orders.
By: Helen Chen and Jos de Roo, Agfa Healthcare .