SEMPATH Ontology: Modeling multi-disciplinary treatment schemes utilizing semantics

A dramatic increase of demand for provided treatment quality has occurred during last decades. The main challenge to be confronted, so as to increase treatment quality, is the personalization of treatment, since each patient constitutes a unique case. Healthcare provision encloses a complex environment since healthcare provision organizations are highly multidisciplinary. In this paper, we present the conceptualization of the domain of Clinical Pathways. The SEMPATH Ontology comprises three main parts: a) the Clinical Pathway part, b) the Business & Finance part and c) the Quality Assurance part. Our implementation achieves the conceptualization of the multidisciplinary domain of healthcare provision, in order to be further utilized for the implementation of a Semantic Web Rules (SWRL rules) repository.