An Ontological Analysis of Health Procedure Information.

Health care processes can be formally analyzed as involving two kinds of planned processes that are mereologically related: health procedures and health activities. They can involve a number of informational entities that derive from orders meant to fulfill requests such as prescriptions. This article provides definitions and axioms for such entities, following the OBO Foundry methodology. This representation could serve as a foundation for an ontological model that aims to enable interoperability between various clinical data sources in the context of a Learning Health System.