title: The ontology of medically related social entities: recent developments.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The Ontology of Medically Related Social Entities (OMRSE) was initially developed in 2011 to provide a framework for modeling demographic data in Resource Description Framework/Web Ontology Language. It is built upon the Basic Formal Ontology and conforms to Open Biomedical Ontologies Foundry's best practices.
  
  
  METHODS
  We report recent development of OMRSE which includes representations of organizations, roles, facilities, demographic data, enrollment in insurance plans, and data about socio-economic indicators.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  OMRSE's coverage has been expanding in recent years to include a wide variety of classes and has been useful in several biomedical applications.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Outcomes and Policy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. aehicks@ufl.edu.
authors.forename: Amanda
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hicks
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Outcomes and Policy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
authors.forename: Josh
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hanna
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Outcomes and Policy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Welch
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Arkansas for Medical Science, Little Rock, AR, USA.
authors.forename: Mathias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brochhausen
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Outcomes and Policy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
authors.forename: William R
authors.initials: WR
authors.lastname: Hogan
mesh_terms: D064229:Biological Ontologies; D003710:Demography / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006268:Health Facilities; D006801:Humans; D007341:Insurance; D017533:Marital Status; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
keywords: OMRSE; Ontology; Organizations; Social entities; Social roles