Reference: Zeng Q., Tu S., Boxwala A., Peleg M., Greenes RA, and Shortliffe EH, A Three-Layer Domain Ontology for Guideline Representation and Sharing. Proc AMIA Symp 2000
Abstract: Medical Domain ontology is an important issue in guideline representation and sharing. The Guideline Interchange Format (GLIF) addresses the domain ontology problem to satisfy the needs for a variety of representation objectives: readability, machine-interpretability, integration into local information system environments, and author-ing/execution support. This is accomplished in GLIF by a flexible three-layer domain ontology. The first layer, Core GLIF, defines a standard interface to medical data and concepts. The second layer, Reference Information Model (RIM), defines the basic data model for representing medical information. The third layer, Medical Knowledge, supports term encoding and semantic verification of guidelines.
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Keywords: Guidelines and Protocols, Modeling, General use settings,
Informaticians, Mult. process/outcome measures
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