An Ontology of Medical Wearables

Nowadays, wearable devices are rapidly conquering the market, and there are wearables for a lot of types of activities. In the medical field, a lot of devices are invading the market, day by day. Our work focuses on the creation of an ontology that will help in the description and classification of the main wearable medical devices. In our ontology, medical wearables are classified following characteristics such as battery life, diseases and symptoms monitored, the presence of an integrated actuator, and so on. To make our work more complete and expandable, we integrated our ontology with an external medical ontology called DOID, linking the wearable to DOID symptoms and diseases.