Continuity of care (CONTSONTO)

Ontology Info

Field	Value
Acronyme	CONTSONTO
Description	The Ontology of Continuity of care (ContSOnto) is an emerging research area consisting of the extension of a healthcare ontology to inform the continuity of care domain. This field is positioned at the confluence of health informatics, nursing informatics, process modelling, and artificial intelligence. This research relating to ContSOnto is underpinned by health informatics standard ISO 13940 Systems of Concepts for Continuity of Care ContSOnto focuses on how information flows from different information systems across and between services for clinical applications and health care professionals to use. Figure 14.2 provides an illustration (see https://contsys.org/pages/Guest%20blog/FormalOntology)of how the different classes and relationships in the standard are represented. The subject of care refers to the individual service user and health care actors can be human or non-human, for example, a health care professional or an organization. We have added concepts related to social determinants of health (SDH) in version 1.6.
Format	OWL
Categories	Health
Groups

Metric	Value
Classes	171
Individuals	3
Properties	353
Max Depth	7
Max Child Count	20
Average Child Count	2
Classes With One Child	26
Classes With More Than 25 Children	0
Classes With No Definition	17

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