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Health care ontologies: Knowledge models for record sharing and decision support
This chapter gives an educational overview of: • The difference between informal and formal ontologies • The primary objectives of ontology design, re-use, extensibility, and interoperability • How formal ontologies can be used to map terminologies and classification systems • How formal ontologies improve semantic interoperability • The relationship between a well-formed ontology and the development of intelligent decision support