The Ambient-Aware Continuous Care Ontology

Ontology Description:

The ambient-aware continuous care ontology describes the eHealth sector. It has been constructed in collaboration with stakeholders, such as nurses, caregivers and physicians, social scientists and ontology engineers.

Import Schema:

Import Schema
  • The Upper ontology describes general classes, relations and axioms. The upper ontology allows data to be related with a unique ID. 
  • The Sensor & Observation ontology allows the filtering of data. It imports the Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) ontology and extends it with additional eHealth based concepts. 
  • The Context ontology describes the contextual information regarding the environment. It contains all localization information.
  • The Profile ontology models all profile information about the patients and the staff members. Each Person is linked to a Profile, that can either be a basic profile or a risk profile. This has been described as axioms, allowing the risk patients can be automatically inferenced.
  • The Role & Competence ontology describes roles and competences in the eHealth sector. Roles, based on competences, can be automatically inferred through the use of axioms.
  • The Task ontology models the task and call handling. 
  • The Medical ontology models medical concepts such as observed parameters and pathologies.
The ontologies can be found here.