The hospital became pervasive at the moment its computational devices start to interact with their users so naturally, that such devices would not be perceived anymore
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OntoHealth: An Ontology Applied to Pervasive Hospital Environments
Giovani Librelotto (Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil), Iara Augustin (Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil), Jonas Gassen (Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil), Guilherme Kurtz (Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil), Leandro Freitas (Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil), Ricardo Martini (Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil), and Renato Azevedo (Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil)
Copyright: © 2011
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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-042-6.ch065
Abstract
In the last years ontologies are being used in the development of pervasive computing applications. It is habitual their use for facilitating the interoperability among context-aware applications and the entities that may enter in the context at any time. This chapter presents OntoHealth: an ontology applied to health pervasive environment and a tool to its processing. The main idea is that a hospital could be seen as this pervasive environment, where someone, through ubiquitous computing, engages a range of computational devices and systems simultaneously, in the course of ordinary activities, and may not necessarily even be aware that they are doing so. With the proposed ontology and the tool for its processing, the medical tasks can be shared by all components of this pervasive environment.