Ontology Design for Patient Medication Record

Most of the existing patient medication records used paper card systems to record the medicine prescription in the pharmacy. Different countries use different systems, yet hold the same system workflow. This paper reviews ontology works and their usage in medical applications. As technology evolves, this paper proposes an ontology modeling in developing an electronic patient medication record. This paper uses DOID ontology for its disease and symptom ontology in the proposed methodology. The proposed medication ontology can be embedded in a web application that can be used by patients and doctors. However, the proposed ontology is only specified for the Malaysian environment which covers certain prescribed medicine allowed to be sold at the pharmacy.