Ontology-driven patient history questionnaires

We are developing an ontology-driven system for collecting, recording, and managing patient histories. It consists of a web application with an RDF triple store database populated with representations in OWL of the entities that medical histories are about. It also represents the processes involved in collecting patient histories, including the questions, answers, and other information artifacts involved. It replaces paper questionnaires previously used for both general health and oral health history. The underlying ontology will be made publicly available. This abstract discusses the system, focusing on the ontological models underlying it.