A four stage approach for ontology-based health information system design

作者：Kuziemsky Craig E^*; Lau Francis

来源：Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 2010, 50(3): 133-148.

DOI：10.1016/j.artmed.2010.04.012

• Grounded theory
• Participatory design
• Ontology
• Problem-solving approach
• Contextualization
• Health information system

Objective To describe and illustrate a four stage methodological approach to capture user knowledge in a biomedical domain area, use that knowledge to design an ontology and then implement and evaluate the ontology as a health information system (HIS)
Methods and materials A hybrid participatory design-grounded theory (GT-PD) method was used to obtain data and code them for ontology development Prototyping was used to implement the ontology as a computer-based tool Usability testing evaluated the computer-based tool
Results An empirically derived domain ontology and set of three problem-solving approaches were developed as a formalized model of the concepts and categories from the GT coding The ontology and problem-solving approaches were used to design and implement a HIS that tested favorably in usability testing
Conclusions The four stage approach illustrated in this paper is useful for designing and implementing an ontology as the

• 出版日期2010-11