Mega-Ontology Can Help Enhance Patient’s Healthcare Experience

April 5, 2011 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Mega-Ontology Can Help Enhance Patient’s Healthcare Experience

April 5, 2011 – An extensive computer based glossary of healthcare terms gathered from multiple locations. Can you say ontology? This jackpot of information could only serve to improve the communication regarding and ultimately, care of the patient.

This interesting topic was found on Science Daily in their article, “Towards Electronic Healthcare Centred on the Patient.” For successful results, the patient must be able to obtain and understand available health information and make informed decisions about treatment in conjunction with healthcare workers. Though progress has been made on e-records, each system is stand-alone and doesn’t “play well” with others.

The Finnish team of computer scientist Juha Puustjärvi of Aalto University in Finland and pharmacist Leena Puustjärvi of The Pharmacy of Kaivopuisto in Helsinki has now developed a Personal Health Server that would allow e-health tools to work together by sharing an ontology.

Melody K. Smith

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.