LUMC Clinical Ontology for Biomedical Research.

The application of ontologies to solve biomedical problems in hospitals is increasing. In the Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) physicians, clinical researchers, data managers and FAIR specialists are addressing the question of how to manage research data in the hospital to enable efficient research for patient care and treatment. We hypothesized to improve data integration based on machine readable ontology, i.e. improve the Interoperability aspect of FAIR. In this paper, we describe the development and evaluation of the LUMC Clinical Ontology for biomedical research in academic hospitals.