Ontology Based E-Healthcare Information Retrieval System: A Semantic Approach

Abstract

With the increase of data in the health care system provides a base for the development of an effective information retrieval system. The implementation of such information retrieval system integrates the heterogeneous information from the healthcare environment. Most of the existing information retrieval systems are syntactic based systems, which will provide inefficient results for the search queries. The objective of this approach is to design a semantic based E-Healthcare information retrieval system. The proposed approach uses an ontology to define the disease-treatment information and will be used for the effective information retrieval. The designated approach is evaluated with a web based tool and the results shows that there is an improvement in the approach.