Towards a Formal Representation of Processes and Objects Regarding the Delivery of Telehealth Services: The Telehealth Ontology (TEON).
This study introduces ontological aspects concerning the Telehealth Ontology (TEON), an ontology that represents formal-ontological content concerning the delivery of telehealth services. TEON formally represents the main services, actors and other entity types relevant to telehealth service delivery. TEON uses the upper level ontology BioTopLite2 and reuses content from the Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (OBI). The services embedded in telehealth services are considered as essential as the common services provided by the health-related practices. We envision TEON as a service to support the development of telehealth systems. TEON might also enable the integration of heterogeneous telehealth systems, and provide a base to automatize the processing of telehealth-related content.
Centro de Informática (CIn), Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Recife, Brazil.
Filipe
F
Santana
Institut für Medizinische Informatik, Statistik und Dokumentation (IMI), Medizinische Universität Graz, Austria.
Stefan
S
Schulz
Núcleo de Telessaúde (NUTES), Hospital das Clínicas, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Recife, Brazil.
Amadeu
A
Campos
Núcleo de Telessaúde (NUTES), Hospital das Clínicas, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Recife, Brazil.
Magdala A
MA
Novaes
D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000145:classification / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017146:Models, Organizational; D017064:Process Assessment, Health Care; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000145:classification* / Q000458:organization & administration*; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled; D057188:Workflow