The Design of a Medical Rules Synchronization System

Abstract

The study incorporates the semantic web to achieve the synchronization for medical rules. Web Ontology Language (OWL) is first used as the knowledge model and a medical rule is viewed as a class of medical statuses representing knowledge of medical rules. A classification is then applied to decide the legality of medical usage. The characteristics of the proposed solution are manifold. OWL supports the syntax of class inherences, so it can develop a cognitive economy and shorten the encoding length of medical rules. OWL syntax can represent the styles of most medical rules, so the automatic synchronization system only need one document and one inference engine to handle all medical rules. OWL simplifies the design of the medical rules of National Health Insurance automatically, and synchronizes the design to hospital information systems. Therefore, doctors’ ordering systems rapidly reflects the changes of medical rules.