Multi-Version Ontology-Based Personalization of Clinical Guidelines for Patient-Centric Healthcare

Fabio Grandi, Federica Mandreoli and Riccardo Martoglia
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Fabio Grandi: DISI, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Federica Mandreoli: FIM Department, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
Riccardo Martoglia: FIM Department, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS), 2017, vol. 13, issue 1, 104-127

Abstract: When dealing with a specific patient case, physicians are often interested in retrieving a personalized version of a clinical guideline, that is a version tailored to their use needs. In a patient-centric scenario, empowered patients make up another class of users interested in retrieving personalized care plans from a guideline repository. In their previous work, the authors proposed techniques to efficiently provide ontology-based personalized access to very large collections of multi-version clinical guidelines. In this paper, they address the problem of also dealing with a multi-version ontology used to support personalized access to clinical guidelines. The authors' approach allows the semantic indexing of guideline contents with respect to multi-version ontology classes and exploits the IS-A relationship among such classes for granting personalized access. Efficiency is ensured by a newly introduced annotation scheme for guidelines and solutions to cope with the evolution of ontology structure. The tests performed on a prototype implementation confirm the goodness of the approach.

Date: 2017
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