This assignment focuses on ontology application to healthcare. Below are several articles for you to review. You can use one of these articles or select a different one. You need to write an essay on how ontologies are applied to healthcare. Be sure to discuss ontologies in healthcare in general, then provide a specific example of an ontology already used in healthcare from your selected article. You will need to provide a summary of your article. Be sure to discuss what the ontology is, how it was created, what could be changed to make it better.
Normalization and Standardization of Electronic Health Records for High-throughput Phenotyping: the SHARPn Consortium
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The Human Phenotype Ontology Project: Linking Molecular Biology and Disease Through Phenotype Data
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Gene Ontology Annotations and Resources
An Ontology-driven, Diagnostic Modeling System
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Knowledge Retrieval from PubMed Abstracts and Electronic Medical Records with the Multiple Sclerosis Ontology
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Ontology-guided Organ Detection to Retrieve We Images of Disease Manifestation: Towards the Construction of a Consumer-based Health Image Library
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Grading
Only peer reviewed articles will be accepted for full credit. The minimum word count requirement is 600 words, but no more than 1000 words. The report must be prepared in an essay form; not as a list of bullet points. For a grading breakdown, please review the rubric below.