Ontologies are the essential glue to build interoperable systems and the talk of the day in the medical community. In this paper we present the on- tology of medical therapies developed in the course of the Oncocure project, aimed at building a guideline based decision support integrated with a legacy Electronic Patient Record (EPR). The therapy ontology is based upon the DOLCE top level ontology. It is our opinion that our ontology, besides consti- tuting a model capturing the precise meaning of therapy-related concepts, can serve for several practical purposes: interfacing automatic support systems with a legacy EPR, allowing the automatic data analysis, and controlling possible medical errors made during EPR data input.
['Claudio Eccher', 'Antonella Ferro', 'Domenico M. Pisanelli']
An Ontology of Therapies