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OntoHealth: An Ontology Applied to Pervasive Hospital Environments

OntoHealth: An Ontology Applied to Pervasive Hospital Environments

Giovani Librelotto, Iara Augustin, Jonas Gassen, Guilherme Kurtz, Leandro Freitas, Ricardo Martini, Renato Azevedo
Copyright: © 2010 |Volume: 2 |Issue: 3 |Pages: 13
ISSN: 1937-965X|EISSN: 1937-9668|EISBN13: 9781609609870|DOI: 10.4018/japuc.2010070103
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Librelotto, Giovani, et al. "OntoHealth: An Ontology Applied to Pervasive Hospital Environments." IJAPUC vol.2, no.3 2010: pp.33-45. http://doi.org/10.4018/japuc.2010070103

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Librelotto, G., Augustin, I., Gassen, J., Kurtz, G., Freitas, L., Martini, R., & Azevedo, R. (2010). OntoHealth: An Ontology Applied to Pervasive Hospital Environments. International Journal of Advanced Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAPUC), 2(3), 33-45. http://doi.org/10.4018/japuc.2010070103

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Librelotto, Giovani, et al. "OntoHealth: An Ontology Applied to Pervasive Hospital Environments," International Journal of Advanced Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAPUC) 2, no.3: 33-45. http://doi.org/10.4018/japuc.2010070103

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Abstract

In the last years ontologies are being used in the development of pervasive computing applications. It is habitual their use for facilitating the interoperability among context-aware applications and the entities that may enter in the context at any time. This chapter presents OntoHealth: an ontology applied to health pervasive environment and a tool to its processing. The main idea is that a hospital could be seen as this pervasive environment, where someone, through ubiquitous computing, engages a range of computational devices and systems simultaneously, in the course of ordinary activities, and may not necessarily even be aware that they are doing so. With the proposed ontology and the tool for its processing, the medical tasks can be shared by all components of this pervasive environment.

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