Building an Ontology of Hypertension Management

Marie-Christine Jaulent , Christel Daniel-Le Bozec , Jean Charlet , Olivier Steichen (1)

1 IHPST - Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques

The analysis of customized decisions during hypertension management in a specialized unit requires a detailed representation of clinical cases. We are building a specific ontology to code medical records and process them with computerized tools. Relevant concepts to describe and justify medical decisions are extracted from three sources: (i) Clinical guidelines; (ii) Items of the semi-structured medical record form used in the clinical unit; (iii) Free-text answers from 5,000 completed record forms. Combining terminological sources is mandatory to cover the whole spectrum of possible justifications for clinical decisions, including contextual specificities and patients' particulars.

Mots clés: Ontologies; Computerized Medical Records; Guidelines

Domaines: Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences

Marie-Christine Jaulent, Christel Daniel-Le Bozec, Jean Charlet, Olivier Steichen. Building an Ontology of Hypertension Management. AIME 2007: 11th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Jul 2007, Amsterdam, Netherlands. pp.292-296, ⟨10.1007/978-3-540-73599-1_39⟩. ⟨halshs-00790949⟩