Schema Ontology Model to Support Semantic Interoperability in Healthcare Applications: Use Case of Depressive Disorder

The provision of semantic interoperability among heterogeneous data is important issue to cope with a tremendous potential of diverse healthcare applications. This paper describes schema ontology models to support semantic interoperability in healthcare applications of depressive disorder (DD) using the framework of Web of Objects (WoO). And the implementation aspects of semantics interoperability with required schema ontology models and their integrated associations are defined to characterize the target interoperable ontology of affective DD states.