Continuity of care

Other names: CONTSONTO

The Ontology of Continuity of care (ContSOnto) is an emerging research area consisting of the extension of a healthcare ontology to inform the continuity of care domain. This field is positioned at the confluence of health informatics, nursing informatics, process modelling, and artificial intelligence. This research relating to ContSOnto is underpinned by health informatics standard ISO 13940 Systems of Concepts for Continuity of Care ContSOnto focuses on how information flows from different information systems across and between services for clinical applications and health care professionals to use. Figure 14.2 provides an illustration (see https://contsys.org/pages/Guest%20blog/FormalOntology)of how the different classes and relationships in the standard are represented. Subject of care refers to the individual service user and health care actors can be human or non-human, for example, a health care professional or an organisation.

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http://purl.org/net/for-coc

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