OntoVistA

This is the main page for the OntoVistA project. The project is described at http://ontovista.blogspot.com if you want more information about it.

To get this started, here are some major branches to build the next few days:

General Goals and Desires

 Basic Goal - represent VistA in a rigorous standard ontology structure
   Method goals - user interaction tools
   Solicit domain expert interactions
 Next steps - VistA variants
   IHS RPMS ontology layer - a separate layer, common nodes connect to VA layer
   CHCS ? layer
   Washington State Hospitals layer - adds state psych related elements
   ?Wa Corrections
 Big next steps - non-VistA healthcare domains
   ?FreeEMR? - open source EMR system
   ?UCDavis VMTH??  - veterinary system?
   Epic or some other proprietary system?  - maybe collaborate with NIH?
   Layers which represent non-provider data systems - SSA, CDC, etc.

Resources from elsewhere

 Existing Ontology projects
   WordNet
   Cyc
   SUMO
   etc...

 Existing User interfaces
   M2Web
   ... ESI-objects, other relevant M tools...