Medical and health informatics integrates knowledge of business information systems, computer science and medicine.As a comparatively young research discipline, it lacks a uniform terminology, especially for describing health information systems and their management.Several textbooks provide different perspectives of the discipline but the linear struture inherent in a book does not intuitively convey the highly connected nature of the concepts of the domain.SNIK (Höffner et al., 2017) is a semantic network of inf…

The Health IT Ontology

The Health IT Ontology

SNIK, a medical informatics ontology, combines knowledge from different literature sources dealing with the management of hospital information systems (HIS). Concepts and relations were extracted from literature, modeled as an ontology and visualized as a graph on a website. We demonstrate the potential of the graph visualization for tuitional scenarios. SNIK complements teaching and learning with conventional literature by concentrating knowledge that is scattered over different pieces of text around one node of …

Given a care delivery organization, its health information system can be defined as the part of the organization that processes and stores data, information, and knowledge. There is an enormous number of frameworks, textbooks and articles that describe the scope of health information system management from the perspective of medical informatics. Transforming this knowledge to Linked Open Data results in a structured data representation that is accessible for both humans and machines, the Semantic Network of Inform…