Enhancing Arden-Syntax-Based Clinical Reasoning with Ontologies.

We present a new methodological approach based on integrating Arden-Syntax-based clinical decision support (CDS) with an upstream ontology service. Incoming linguistic patient data, such as single reports about detected germs or viruses, shall be identified by the applied ontology at a low level. Then, higher-level concepts are activated by ontology-based bottom-up reasoning.

Microbiological and Virological Knowledge-Based Alert Service.

Hospital wards need immediate information about multi-resistant pathogens and contagious viruses in their hospitalized patients. An alert service configurable with Arden-Syntax-based alert definitions passing through an ontology service to complement results from microbiology and virology with high-level terms was implemented as proof of concept. Integration into the University Hospital Vienna's IT landscape is ongoing.