Ontology-based Model For The "Ward-round" Process in HealthCare (OMWRP)

In the current arena, rapid changes are required to address dynamic patient’s treatment
process needs according to the patient’s demand in the healthcare sector. This
research work addresses existing problems about information flow in ward-round,
what is the optimal information need for an individual with his/her competences
according to their role during ward-round in healthcare area. This work also mentions
what are the certain activities which are required during the patient treatment.
This research work contributes in the field of Information logistics and ontology
development in healthcare. So the main purpose of this thesis is to design an ontology
based model that can fix information flow problems in the ward-round process of
hospital unit. The ontology based model can be used to provide relevant information
to the domain users according to their needs and demands. The ontology based model
projects domain users profiling and describes their roles, information demands with
competencies: skills, qualifications and experiences. The ontology based model will
be implemented in OWL language that can be used in an application to support wardround
activities for achieving effective patient’s treatment process.
For ontology development is concerned, different ontology development
methodologies have been reviewed from literature review by the author to analyze the
existing problems in the ward-round. This thesis incorporates Hybrid Methodology
(HM) that helps to develop ontology based model that addresses information flow
problems in ward-round. The proposed ontology based model is developed in web
Ontology Language (OWL) supported tool protégé 4.0.2 that can be considered as
foundation to develop a software product with the help of IT practitioners and
developers to fulfill medical practitioner’s demands in ward-round’s context.