An Aboriginal English Ontology Framework for Patient-Practitioner Interview Encounters

Current diagnosis, treatment and healthcare delivery processes in Australia are dominated by long established westernized clinically driven methods of patient-practitioner interaction. Consequently this dominant healthcare provider influence contributes to risk of miscommunication, misinformation in...

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Main Authors: Forbes, David, Sidhu, Amandeep, Singh, Jaipal
Other Authors: Tharam Dillon
Format: Conference Paper
Published: IEEE 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/24148
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Sidhu, Amandeep
Singh, Jaipal
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Singh, Jaipal
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description Current diagnosis, treatment and healthcare delivery processes in Australia are dominated by long established westernized clinically driven methods of patient-practitioner interaction. Consequently this dominant healthcare provider influence contributes to risk of miscommunication, misinformation in patient records and reciprocal misunderstandings that go unrecognised as such. For Indigenous communities, inadequate health literacy (HL) and a pervasive semantic disconnect are major barriers. Overcoming these barriers in the primary care setting presents opportunities to deliver appropriate timely and more effective care. We propose an e-health framework that enhances the Patient-Practitioner Interview Encounter (PPIE) through the use of a patient-centric linguistic interface using semantic mappings between Aboriginal English (AE) and Standard Australian English (SAE). This will ameliorate communications and interactions, so meeting the needs of all stakeholders (Patients, Physicians, Nurses, Allied Health Professionals and their Non-Critical Carers) engaged in Indigenous patient-centric primary care. It provides healthcare practitioners and their Indigenous T2DM patients with a new platform for two-way educative sharing and knowledge exchange that will increase mutually productive treatment, care and management expectations.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-241482023-01-13T07:56:31Z An Aboriginal English Ontology Framework for Patient-Practitioner Interview Encounters Forbes, David Sidhu, Amandeep Singh, Jaipal Tharam Dillon Daniel Rubin William Gallagher Current diagnosis, treatment and healthcare delivery processes in Australia are dominated by long established westernized clinically driven methods of patient-practitioner interaction. Consequently this dominant healthcare provider influence contributes to risk of miscommunication, misinformation in patient records and reciprocal misunderstandings that go unrecognised as such. For Indigenous communities, inadequate health literacy (HL) and a pervasive semantic disconnect are major barriers. Overcoming these barriers in the primary care setting presents opportunities to deliver appropriate timely and more effective care. We propose an e-health framework that enhances the Patient-Practitioner Interview Encounter (PPIE) through the use of a patient-centric linguistic interface using semantic mappings between Aboriginal English (AE) and Standard Australian English (SAE). This will ameliorate communications and interactions, so meeting the needs of all stakeholders (Patients, Physicians, Nurses, Allied Health Professionals and their Non-Critical Carers) engaged in Indigenous patient-centric primary care. It provides healthcare practitioners and their Indigenous T2DM patients with a new platform for two-way educative sharing and knowledge exchange that will increase mutually productive treatment, care and management expectations. 2010 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/24148 IEEE fulltext
spellingShingle Forbes, David
Sidhu, Amandeep
Singh, Jaipal
An Aboriginal English Ontology Framework for Patient-Practitioner Interview Encounters
title An Aboriginal English Ontology Framework for Patient-Practitioner Interview Encounters
title_full An Aboriginal English Ontology Framework for Patient-Practitioner Interview Encounters
title_fullStr An Aboriginal English Ontology Framework for Patient-Practitioner Interview Encounters
title_full_unstemmed An Aboriginal English Ontology Framework for Patient-Practitioner Interview Encounters
title_short An Aboriginal English Ontology Framework for Patient-Practitioner Interview Encounters
title_sort aboriginal english ontology framework for patient-practitioner interview encounters
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/24148