Question

	Topic: "Why ontologies are important in healthcare?" Discuss about: The importance of ontologies in healthcare and/or research The applications of ontologies The challenges of its development and/or implementation

Answer 1

Ontologies is a branch of metaphysics that deals with the nature of being.

Ontologies are important in healthcare to communicate complex and detailed medical data securely and efficiently in medical information systems. The goal of an ontologies in healthcare system is to achieve a common and shared knowledge that can be easily transmitted to people and between application systems. Thus, they play a pivotal role in gaining interoperability across organizations.

OWL2 is an expressive ontology language which provides reasoning and inferencing capabilities to software applications.