Ziniya Zahedi EMSE Dissertation Defense

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering

Public Dissertation Defense

Doctoral Candidate: Ziniya Zahedi

Zoom: https://odu.zoom.us/j/98924087361

Wednesday, May 6, 2020, 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM

Director: T. Steven Cotter

A CORE REFERENCE HIERARCHICAL PRIMITIVE ONTOLOGY FOR ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS SEMANTICS INTEROPERABILITY

ABSTRACT

Currently, electronic medical records (EMR) cannot be exchanged among hospitals, clinics, laboratories, pharmacies, and insurance providers or made available to patients outside of local networks.  Hospital, laboratory, pharmacy, and insurance provider legacy databases can share medical data within a respective network and limited data with patients.  The lack of interoperability has its roots in the historical development of electronic medical records.  Two issues contribute to interoperability failure.  The first is that legacy medical record databases and expert systems were designed with semantics that support only internal information exchange.  The second is ontological commitment to the semantics of a particular knowledge representation language formalism.  This research seeks to address these interoperability failures through demonstration of the capability of a core reference, hierarchical primitive ontological architecture with concept primitive attributes definitions to integrate and resolve non-interoperable semantics among and extend coverage across existing clinical, drug, and hospital ontologies and terminologies.

Posted By: Steven Cotter
Date: Mon Apr 27 06:07:53 EDT 2020