DocumentCode :
1697678
Title :
An Aboriginal English ontology framework for Patient-Practitioner Interview Encounters
Author :
Forbes, David ; Sidhu, Amandeep ; Singh, Jaipal
Author_Institution :
Digital Ecosyst. & Bus. Intell. Inst., Curtin Univ. of Technol., Perth, WA, Australia
fYear :
2010
Firstpage :
156
Lastpage :
161
Abstract :
Current diagnosis, treatment and healthcare delivery processes in Australia are dominated by long established westernized clinically driven methods of patient-practitioner interaction. Consequently this dominant healthcare provider influence contributes to risk of miscommunication, misinformation in patient records and reciprocal misunderstandings that go unrecognised as such. For Indigenous communities, inadequate health literacy (HL) and a pervasive semantic disconnect are major barriers. Overcoming these barriers in the primary care setting presents opportunities to deliver appropriate timely and more effective care. We propose an e-health framework that enhances the Patient-Practitioner Interview Encounter (PPIE) through the use of a patient-centric linguistic interface using semantic mappings between Aboriginal English (AE) and Standard Australian English (SAE). This will ameliorate communications and interactions, so meeting the needs of all stakeholders (Patients, Physicians, Nurses, Allied Health Professionals and their Non-Critical Carers) engaged in Indigenous patient-centric primary care. It provides healthcare practitioners and their Indigenous T2DM patients with a new platform for two-way educative sharing and knowledge exchange that will increase mutually productive treatment, care and management expectations.
Keywords :
health care; linguistics; medical diagnostic computing; medical information systems; natural language processing; ontologies (artificial intelligence); Aboriginal English ontology framework; Australia; Standard Australian English; diagnosis process; e-health framework; educative sharing; health literacy; healthcare delivery process; indigenous T2DM patients; indigenous patient-centric primary care; knowledge exchange; patient records; patient-centric linguistic interface; patient-practitioner interaction; patient-practitioner interview encounters; pervasive semantic disconnect; reciprocal misunderstandings; semantic mappings; treatment process; Guidelines; Interviews; Medical services; Ontologies; Pragmatics; Semantics; Training;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS), 2010 IEEE 23rd International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Perth, WA
ISSN :
1063-7125
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9167-4
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/CBMS.2010.6042633
Filename :
6042633
Link To Document :
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