HITO – A Health IT Ontology

The goal of this project is to develop a Health IT Ontology (HITO) that allows systematically describing application systems and software products in health IT. Our motivation is that information management professionals have a strong need to share and compare knowledge about health IT in several situations. These situations are, among others, to describe the components of a health information system as part of its strategic or operational management, to select a new software product, to learn about available evidence regarding an application, or to hire or train health IT specialists. To reach our objectives, we will combine an agile research approach and a case-based approach as well as a structured approach to taxonomy development. This project builds on our earlier research that focused on concepts and terminology related to health information systems.

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