Application of Ontology Technology in Health Statistic Data Analysis

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2017:245:915-919.

Abstract

Research Purpose: establish health management ontology for analysis of health statistic data. Proposed Methods: this paper established health management ontology based on the analysis of the concepts in China Health Statistics Yearbook, and used protégé to define the syntactic and semantic structure of health statistical data.

Results: six classes of top-level ontology concepts and their subclasses had been extracted and the object properties and data properties were defined to establish the construction of these classes. By ontology instantiation, we can integrate multi-source heterogeneous data and enable administrators to have an overall understanding and analysis of the health statistic data.

Conclusion: ontology technology provides a comprehensive and unified information integration structure of the health management domain and lays a foundation for the efficient analysis of multi-source and heterogeneous health system management data and enhancement of the management efficiency.

Keywords: Disease Management; Models; Semantics; Statistical.

MeSH terms

  • Biological Ontologies*
  • China
  • Data Interpretation, Statistical*
  • Humans
  • Information Technology
  • Semantics*