An ontology for healthcare systems

François Goyer (1) , Paul Fabry (1) , Adrien Barton (1, 2, 3) , Jean-François Ethier (1)

1 UdeS - Université de Sherbrooke
2 IRIT-MELODI - MEthodes et ingénierie des Langues, des Ontologies et du DIscours
3 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Modern patient care is becoming increasingly complex and is now most commonly delivered through healthcare systems. Understanding the structure surrounding care is an important tool in optimizing it. This article proposes a unified ontological analysis of healthcare systems following the OBO Foundry Methodology, by exploring the relationships between the caring of individuals, the health workers and healthcare providing organisations. This ontological model strives to enable interoperability in the context of Learning Health Systems.

Mots clés: healthcare; healthcare procedure; roles; healthcare ontology

Domaines: Philosophie; Informatique [cs]; Intelligence artificielle [cs.AI]; Bio-informatique [q-bio.QM]; Médecine humaine et pathologie

François Goyer, Paul Fabry, Adrien Barton, Jean-François Ethier. An ontology for healthcare systems. International Conference on Biomedical Ontology: Lessons from Ontologies in Diverse Domains (ICBO 2022), Sep 2022, Ann Arbor, United States. paper 5498. ⟨hal-03921323⟩