HITO - A Health IT Ontology for systematically describing application systems and software products in health IT

该项目的目标是开发一个健康信息技术本体（HITO），允许系统地描述健康信息技术中的应用系统和软件产品。我们的动机是，信息管理专业人员强烈需要在不同情况下分享和比较有关医疗IT的知识。除其他情况外，这些情况包括描述卫生信息系统的组成部分，作为其战略或运营管理的一部分，选择新的软件产品，了解有关应用程序的现有证据，或雇用或培训卫生IT专家。然而，目前，卫生IT的描述不容易比较。因此，基于这些需求，我们的动机是开发一个健康IT本体，允许对健康信息系统（HIS）中的应用系统和软件产品进行系统描述。这将有助于更容易地分享知识和经验，支持在规划和操作卫生保健系统时进行更好的合作，并有助于在卫生保健信息管理方面做出基于证据的决策。因此，这个为期三年的项目的目标是制定一个保健信息技术本体论，将其与民间分类法联系起来，并在五个案例研究中加以验证。为了达到这些目标，我们将结合敏捷研究方法和基于案例的方法以及分类学开发的多方面方法。该项目建立在我们早期工作的基础上，如医院信息系统的3LGM2元模型、医院信息系统领域层的参考模型、HIS的需求索引和本体SNIK。我们的想法是创新的，因为它结合了早期在健康it术语方面的工作与本体论和民间声学发展的新方法。健康信息技术本体论将允许以可比的方式描述健康信息技术系统，从而支持健康信息技术管理、健康信息技术研究和健康信息技术教育。因此，HITO将为专业保健信息技术管理和循证保健信息学作出贡献。

The goal of this project is to develop a Health IT Ontology (HITO) that allows systematically describing application systems and software products in health IT. Our motivation is that information management professionals have a strong need to share and compare knowledge about health IT in several situations. These situations are, among others, to describe the components of a health information system as part of its strategic or operational management, to select a new software product, to learn about available evidence regarding an application, or to hire or train health IT specialists. However, at the moment, health IT descriptions are not easily comparable. Thus, based on these needs, our motivation is to develop a Health IT Ontology allowing a systematic description of application systems and software products within health information systems (HIS). This will allow easier sharing of knowledge and experiences, support better cooperation when planning and operating HIS and allow evidence-based decision making in information management in health care. The objective of the three-year project is thus to develop a health IT ontology, to connect it with a folksonomy and to verify it in five case studies. To reach these objectives, we will combine an agile research approach and a case-based approach as well as a multi-facet approach to taxonomy development. This project builds on our earlier work such as the 3LGM2 metamodel for hospital information systems, the reference model for the domain layer of a hospital information system, the requirement index for HIS and the Ontology SNIK. Our idea is innovative, as it combines earlier work on health IT terminology with newer approaches of ontology and folksontology development. The Health IT Ontology will allow describing health IT systems in a comparable way, thus supporting both health IT management as well as health IT research and health IT education. HITO will thus contribute to professional health IT management and evidence-based health informatics.