title: User-specific perspectives on ontologies.
abstract: Ontologies are more and more used in clinical informatics in different settings and supporting different functionalities. Most experts see the role of ontologies as operating in a black box and being invisible for the end-user. With respect to some of the systems that have recently been developed this is only partly possible. Therefore, we provide a methodology to create an end-user perspective on a clinical ontology. This will foster participation of the clinical expert in both ontology exploitation and ontology maintenance. This methodology does not only provide the basis for a better integration of the experts into the ontology-based system, but it can be used to support patient empowerment by helping the patient to understand the content that is stored and partake in its management.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science (IFOMIS), Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany. mathias.brochhausen@ifomis.uni-saarland.de
authors.forename: Mathias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brochhausen
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Slaughter
authors.forename: Holger
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Stenzhorn
authors.forename: Norbert
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Graf
mesh_terms: D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D008490:Medical Informatics; D013038:Specialization; D014584:User-Computer Interface