TY - GEN
T1 - Interface terminologies, reference terminologies and aggregation terminologies
T2 - 16th World Congress of Medical and Health Informatics: Precision Healthcare through Informatics, MedInfo 2017
AU - Schulz, Stefan
AU - Rodrigues, Jean Marie
AU - Rector, Alan
AU - Chute, Christopher G.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) and IOS Press.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - The time has come to end unproductive competitions among different types of biomedical terminology artefacts. Tools and strategies to create the foundation of a seamless environment covering clinical jargon, clinical terminologies, and classifications are necessary. Whereas language processing relies on human interface terminologies, which represent clinical jargon, their link to reference terminologies such as SNOMED CT is essential to guarantee semantic interoperability. There is also a need for interoperation between reference and aggregation terminologies. Simple mappings between nodes are not enough, because the three kinds of terminology systems represent different things: reference terminologies focus on context-free descriptions of classes of entities of a domain; aggregation terminologies contain rules that enforce the principle of single hierarchies and disjoint classes; interface terminologies represent the language used in a domain. We propose a model that aims at providing a better flow of standardized information, addressing multiple use cases in health care including clinical research, epidemiology, care management, and reimbursement.
AB - The time has come to end unproductive competitions among different types of biomedical terminology artefacts. Tools and strategies to create the foundation of a seamless environment covering clinical jargon, clinical terminologies, and classifications are necessary. Whereas language processing relies on human interface terminologies, which represent clinical jargon, their link to reference terminologies such as SNOMED CT is essential to guarantee semantic interoperability. There is also a need for interoperation between reference and aggregation terminologies. Simple mappings between nodes are not enough, because the three kinds of terminology systems represent different things: reference terminologies focus on context-free descriptions of classes of entities of a domain; aggregation terminologies contain rules that enforce the principle of single hierarchies and disjoint classes; interface terminologies represent the language used in a domain. We propose a model that aims at providing a better flow of standardized information, addressing multiple use cases in health care including clinical research, epidemiology, care management, and reimbursement.
KW - Dictionaries as topic
KW - Knowledge bases
KW - Terminology as topic
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U2 - 10.3233/978-1-61499-830-3-940
DO - 10.3233/978-1-61499-830-3-940
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 29295238
AN - SCOPUS:85040521898
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SP - 940
EP - 944
BT - MEDINFO 2017
A2 - Dongsheng, Zhao
A2 - Gundlapalli, Adi V.
A2 - Marie-Christine, Jaulent
PB - IOS Press
Y2 - 21 August 2017 through 25 August 2017
ER -