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

这个项目的目标是开发一个健康IT本体(HITO)，允许系统地描述健康IT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几种情况下共享和比较有关卫生信息技术的知识。这些情况包括将健康信息系统的组件描述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，或雇用或培训健康信息技术专家。然而，目前，健康信息技术的描述并不容易进行比较。因此，基于这些需求，我们的动机是开发一个健康IT本体，允许系统地描述健康信息系统(HIS)中的应用系统和软件产品。这将使知识和经验更容易分享，在规划和运作HIS时支持更好的合作，并允许在卫生保健信息管理中进行基于证据的决策。因此，这个为期三年的项目的目标是开发一个卫生信息技术本体论，将其与大众分类法联系起来，并在五个案例研究中进行验证。为了实现这些目标，我们将结合敏捷研究方法、基于案例的方法以及分类学开发的多方面方法。这个项目建立在我们早期工作的基础上，例如医院信息系统的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Ontology Snik。我们的想法是创新的，因为它结合了早期在卫生信息技术术语方面的工作与本体论和民俗学发展的新方法。卫生信息技术本体将允许以可比较的方式描述卫生信息技术系统，从而支持卫生信息技术管理以及卫生信息技术研究和卫生信息技术教育。因此，HITO将为专业的健康IT管理和基于证据的健康信息学做出贡献。

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.