Electronic Healthcare Ontologies : Philosophy, the real world and IT structures

Electronic Healthcare Ontologies : Philosophy, the real world and IT structures

The thesis investigates how the notion of ‘ontology’ has been used in the field of medical informatics and knowledge representation. Partly to investigate what an ‘ontology’ can be said to represent and what requirements we can have on a good ‘ontology’. The author studies the already existing medic...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berzell, Martin
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Linköpings universitet, Hälsa och samhälle 2010
Subjects:
Philosophy
medical informatics
ontology
terminology
critical realism
immanent realism
Filosofi
medicinsk informatik
ontologi
terminologi
kritisk realism
Theory of science
Vetenskapsteori
Theoretical philosophy
Teoretisk filosofi
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