Ontology interaction with a patient electronic health record

The XIMSA system (extented interactive multimedia system for auto-medication) aims to propose information and services to patients on mild clinical signs and associated treatments, a domain usually called self-medication. An important number of XIMSA´s services benefit from inferences which are the results of collaborations between a self-medication knowledge base (ontology and concept instances), drug and symptom databases and a patient simplified electronic health record. This paper focuses on the electronic health record/knowledge base interactions which enable to validate drug consumption considering a patient profile but also to design usable and user-friendly graphical user interfaces.