A practical framework to improve clinical diagnosis process through patient-physician GTP communication- An ontology based approach

Clinical diagnosis is usually affected by two types of problems. First, inaccurate diagnosis which is often the result of an incomplete transformation of necessary information for diagnosis by the patient to the physician and second is the waste of time that is due to assertion of unnecessary information by the patient that leads to increasing the waiting time for other patients. In this paper we suggest a more profound solution for these two problems in the context of an ontology-based framework which helps the physician to Get To the Point (GTP communication). This framework is a questionnaire system that selects more critical questions among all possible questions for diagnosis which in this way the number of required questions will be decreased significantly. This framework can be used by physicians and patients to make the exchange of information more efficient and also reduce the time of visit.