BACKGROUND The Platform for Innovation in Medical and Health Technologies (ITEMAS) is a network of 66 healthcare centres focused on fostering innovation in medical and health technologies as an essential tool for increasing the sustainability of the Spanish healthcare system. The present research is focused on defining a formal representation that details the most relevant concepts associated with the creation and adoption of innovative medical technology in the Spanish healthcare system. METHODS The methodology applied is based on the methontology process, including peer-review identification and selection of concepts from the ITEMAS innovation indicators and innovation management system standards. This stage was followed by an iterative validation process. Concepts were then conceptualised, formalised and implemented in an ontology. RESULTS The ontology defined describes how relationships between employees, organisations, projects and ideas can be applied to generate results that are transferrable to the market, general public and scientific forums. Overall, we identified 136 concepts, 138 object properties and 30 properties in a five-level hierarchy. The ontology was tested and validated as an appropriate framework for calculating the ITEMAS innovation indicators. CONCLUSIONS The consensus concepts were expressed in the form of an ontology to be used as a single communication format between the members of the ITEMAS network. Healthcare centres can compare their innovation results and obtain a better understanding of their innovation context based on the reasoning techniques of artificial intelligence. As a result, they can benefit from advanced analytical capabilities to define the most appropriate innovation policies for each centre based on the common experience of the large number of healthcare centres involved. The results can be used to create a map of agents and knowledge to show capabilities, projects and services provided by each of the participating centres. The ontology could also be applied as an instrument to match needs with existing projects and capabilities from the community of organisations working in healthcare technology innovation.

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用于医疗技术创新的ITEMAS本体。

背景技术医疗和卫生技术创新平台（ITEMAS）是由66个医疗中心组成的网络，致力于促进医疗和卫生技术创新，作为增加西班牙医疗体系可持续性的重要工具。本研究的重点是定义一个正式的表示形式，该表示形式详细说明了与西班牙医疗保健系统中创新医疗技术的创建和采用相关的最相关概念。方法所采用的方法是基于方法论的过程，包括同行评审的识别以及从ITEMAS创新指标和创新管理系统标准中选择概念。此阶段之后是迭代验证过程。然后将概念概念化，形式化并在本体中实施。结果定义的本体描述了如何应用员工，组织，项目和想法之间的关系来生成可传递到市场，公众和科学论坛的结果。总体而言，我们在五级层次结构中确定了136个概念，138个对象属性和30个属性。测试并验证了该本体，将其作为计算ITEMAS创新指标的适当框架。结论共识概念以本体的形式表示，可以用作ITEMAS网络​​成员之间的单一通信格式。医疗中心可以根据人工智能的推理技术比较其创新成果，并更好地了解其创新环境。因此，他们可以受益于先进的分析能力，根据大量相关医疗中心的共同经验为每个中心定义最合适的创新策略。结果可用于创建代理和知识地图，以显示每个参与中心提供的功能，项目和服务。本体还可以用作一种工具，以将需求与现有项目和能力相匹配，这些项目和能力来自从事医疗技术创新的组织社区。