Construction d'une ontologie pour la prise en charge des patients à domicile.

Abstract

Nowadays, the field of Home Care (HC) has widely ogressed thanks to the use of new Technologies of Information and Communication (TIC). Such kind of care needs a multidisciplinary organization, where several actors are involved. Those one use a medical language characterized by an extremely rich vocabulary and difficult one to manipulate. Efficient and unambiguous communication of medical information between different health care professionals needs a minimal standardization of used language. In this context, the ontologies seem to be the appropriate solution whose benefits are indisputable. The objective of this thesis consist on the construction of a home care domain ontology, where the development process is realized in three fundamental phases: i) the conceptualization essentially founded on METHONTOLOGY methodology that lead to a conceptual ontology; ii) the formalization of that one in description logic SHOIN(D); iii) the implementation witch resulted in a coherent and consistent operational ontology.