Modeling medical interventions using the semantic MediaWiki for use in healthcare practice and education

Social Software and particularly semantic wikis have been increasingly adopted by many online health-related professional and educational services. Because of their ease of use and rapidity of deployment, they offer the opportunity for powerful information sharing and ease of collaboration. Semantic wikis are Web sites that can be edited by anyone who has access to them. However, within medical intervention domain, certain important fundamental issues around development and evaluation have yet to be resolved. Thus, this paper proposes a Wikipedia-like Web-based tool to be used for describing and classifying medical interventions in order to plan and document patient care at a distance. Finally, this paper provides an overview of the ontology to be taken into account for the support of the Web-based tool.