Ontology knowledge map for enhancing health care services: a case of emergency unit of specialist hospital

In developing countries, the health care spending has been constantly increasing in the last decades, and statistics has shown a lot of lapses in the running of the affairs of the health care systems. As a result, there is serious need to introduce new and innovative way of doing certain transaction...

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Main Authors: Musa, Mahdi Alhaji, Othman, Mohd. Shahizan, Al-Rahimi, Waleed Mugaheed
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Language:English
Published: JATIT & LLS. 2014
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Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/54329/1/MahdiAlhajiMusa2014_Ontologyknowledgemapforenhancing.pdf
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author Musa, Mahdi Alhaji
Othman, Mohd. Shahizan
Al-Rahimi, Waleed Mugaheed
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Othman, Mohd. Shahizan
Al-Rahimi, Waleed Mugaheed
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description In developing countries, the health care spending has been constantly increasing in the last decades, and statistics has shown a lot of lapses in the running of the affairs of the health care systems. As a result, there is serious need to introduce new and innovative way of doing certain transaction in the hospitals in order to improve the total efficiency of the hospitals. To address this, we propose a method based on Ontology knowledge map to locate the unnecessary transactions that must be redesigned to improve the healthcare management. We carefully choose this methodology to address the problem statement because it tend to gives a better understanding of the general and dynamic situation of the Hospital emergency unit (EU), and at the same time provides a good alignment between the operation and enterprise design. The method was tested in the EU of the state specialist Hospital Damaturu, where we have succeed in locating some transactions that can be redesign or removed. Evaluation of this methodology was done by means of observations, interviews and feedback from practitioners. . A result shows that there are a lot of unnecessary process in the emergency unit which we are able to removed/redesign, it is also observe that there is also need for the hospital to deploy Electronic Health Record (EHR) to reduce error due to manual recording and reduce time response as well
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spelling utm.eprints-543292018-08-12T03:49:14Z http://eprints.utm.my/54329/ Ontology knowledge map for enhancing health care services: a case of emergency unit of specialist hospital Musa, Mahdi Alhaji Othman, Mohd. Shahizan Al-Rahimi, Waleed Mugaheed QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science In developing countries, the health care spending has been constantly increasing in the last decades, and statistics has shown a lot of lapses in the running of the affairs of the health care systems. As a result, there is serious need to introduce new and innovative way of doing certain transaction in the hospitals in order to improve the total efficiency of the hospitals. To address this, we propose a method based on Ontology knowledge map to locate the unnecessary transactions that must be redesigned to improve the healthcare management. We carefully choose this methodology to address the problem statement because it tend to gives a better understanding of the general and dynamic situation of the Hospital emergency unit (EU), and at the same time provides a good alignment between the operation and enterprise design. The method was tested in the EU of the state specialist Hospital Damaturu, where we have succeed in locating some transactions that can be redesign or removed. Evaluation of this methodology was done by means of observations, interviews and feedback from practitioners. . A result shows that there are a lot of unnecessary process in the emergency unit which we are able to removed/redesign, it is also observe that there is also need for the hospital to deploy Electronic Health Record (EHR) to reduce error due to manual recording and reduce time response as well JATIT & LLS. 2014 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/54329/1/MahdiAlhajiMusa2014_Ontologyknowledgemapforenhancing.pdf Musa, Mahdi Alhaji and Othman, Mohd. Shahizan and Al-Rahimi, Waleed Mugaheed (2014) Ontology knowledge map for enhancing health care services: a case of emergency unit of specialist hospital. Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology, 70 (1). pp. 196-209. ISSN 1992-8645 http://www.jatit.org/volumes/Vol70No1/24Vol70No1.pdf
spellingShingle QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Musa, Mahdi Alhaji
Othman, Mohd. Shahizan
Al-Rahimi, Waleed Mugaheed
Ontology knowledge map for enhancing health care services: a case of emergency unit of specialist hospital
title Ontology knowledge map for enhancing health care services: a case of emergency unit of specialist hospital
title_full Ontology knowledge map for enhancing health care services: a case of emergency unit of specialist hospital
title_fullStr Ontology knowledge map for enhancing health care services: a case of emergency unit of specialist hospital
title_full_unstemmed Ontology knowledge map for enhancing health care services: a case of emergency unit of specialist hospital
title_short Ontology knowledge map for enhancing health care services: a case of emergency unit of specialist hospital
title_sort ontology knowledge map for enhancing health care services a case of emergency unit of specialist hospital
topic QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
url http://eprints.utm.my/54329/1/MahdiAlhajiMusa2014_Ontologyknowledgemapforenhancing.pdf
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