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Structuring, reuse and analysis of electronic dental data using the Oral Health and Disease Ontology.

William D DuncanThankam ThyvalikakathMelissa HaendelCarlo TorniaiPedro HernandezMei SongAmit AcharyaDaniel J CaplanTitus SchleyerAlan Ruttenberg
Published in: Journal of biomedical semantics (2020)
This proof-of-concept project translated data from a single practice. By using dental practice data, we demonstrate that the OHD and the instance-based approach are sufficient to represent data generated in real-world, routine clinical settings. While the OHD is applicable to integration of data from multiple practices with different dental EHR systems, we intend our work to be understood as a prospective design for EHR data storage that would simplify medical informatics. The system has well-understood semantics because of our use of BFO-based realist ontology and its representation in OWL. The data model is a well-defined web standard.
Keyphrases
  • electronic health record
  • big data
  • oral health
  • healthcare
  • primary care
  • data analysis