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Patient Journey Ontology: Representing Medical Encounters for Enhanced Patient-Centric Applications
Hassan S. Al Khatib, Subash Neupane, Sudip Mittal, Shahram Rahimi, Nina Marhamati, Sean Bozorgzad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18772

Patient Journey Ontology: Representing Medical Encounters for Enhanced Patient-Centric Applications
The healthcare industry is moving towards a patient-centric paradigm that requires advanced methods for managing and representing patient data. This paper presents a Patient Journey Ontology (PJO), a framework that aims to capture the entirety of a patient's healthcare encounters. Utilizing ontologies, the PJO integrates different patient data sources like medical histories, diagnoses, treatment pathways, and outcomes; it enables semantic interoperability and enhances clinical reasoning. By cap…