Medical Informatics and Information Technology Supporting Oral Medicine

Area of Science:

• Dentistry
• Health Informatics
• Medical Documentation

Background:

• Electronic healthcare documentation is crucial for eHealth.
• Current oral health record systems may lack efficiency and integration capabilities.
• There is a need for improved dental decision-making and forensic identification tools.

Purpose of the Study:

• To develop a methodology and instrument for efficient oral health documentation.
• To support information exchange and integration within the dental domain.
• To facilitate dental decision-making and forensic dentistry identification tasks.

Main Methods:

• A methodology for lifelong Electronic Oral Health Record (EOHR) modeling was proposed.
• A small, specific ontology was used, allowing integration with systems like SNODENT.
• The Lifelong DentCross user interface was developed and implemented.

Main Results:

• The Lifelong DentCross user interface supports dental care at the University Hospital in Prague-Motol.
• The system operates in four languages and supports voice and keyboard control.
• The EOHR provides both structured and free text information for oral medicine.

Conclusions:

• The developed EOHR methodology and Lifelong DentCross interface enhance oral health documentation efficiency.
• The system facilitates information exchange, integration, and decision-making in dentistry.
• The EOHR system is a valuable tool for clinical dentistry and forensic identification.