1. Summary of Domain Specific Needs of Context
Ontology Summit 2018
David Whitten
Ravi Sharma
Jan 17, 2018

2. Medical Informaticist Physicist and Ontologist
Introduction
David Whitten
Medical Informaticist
Ravi Shankar
Physicist and Ontologist

3. Overview Expression of Context
Context interpretations in Healthcare domains
Eliciting Context from Practice
John Sowa’s October 21, 2017 Presentation
David Whitten October 4, 2017 Presentation

4. Expression of Context
content and format & with complex combinations of these:
Text
Outlines & Overviews
Assessments and Plans
Reports – Descriptive and Generated
Audio
Recordings of meetings
Audio Dictation and Transcription
Observations relevant to care
Visual,
stationary and moving images
Graphs (trends, interactions between elements)
visual analytics (Descriptive and Generated as in Text)
Dashboards – Current Status, Future Perspectives

5. Context interpretations in Healthcare domains
Medical Clinical Events –
referential connection of Natural Language to Physical context
Standard Nomenclature
Interoperable/Consistent definitions for multiple Healthcare Organization
Originally organized for billing for care encounters
Increase Quality of Care
Increase Consistency of Care
Supports Evidence based Reimbursement
Allows comparison of effective evidence based approaches

6. Eliciting Context from Practice
New Patient and initial medical diagnosis
Existing Patient receives procedures of care
Home Buyer applies for mortgage loan
Tax return is prepared and submitted
Creating testing protocol from proposals

7. John Sowa’s October 21, 2017 presentation
context & situation awareness and modeling
Context within
natural languages
formal logic especially as expressed in
Common Logic
Conceptual Graphs
current tools and applications.

8. David Whitten Oct 4, 2017 Presentation
Healthcare Domains related contexts
Medical decision support
Patient calendars
Clinical information for caregivers
Drug interactions
Context Lists and Parameters used for these systems in health informatics

9. Decision Support Rule Context

10. Questions David Whitten whitten@netcom.com 713-870-3834 Ravi Sharma