Exploiting the terminological approach from CEN/TC251 and GALEN to support semantic interoperability of healthcare record systems

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 48, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 111-124

  Mori, Angelo Rossi ^a   Consorti, Fabrizio ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

CEN standards; Healthcare record systems; Interoperability

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; STANDARDS; TERMINOLOGY;

CONTROLLED LANGUAGE; INTEROPERABILITY; MEDICAL INFORMATICS;

HEALTH CARE;

COMPUTER LANGUAGE; CONFERENCE PAPER; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ITALY; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 0032007072     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1386-5056(97)00116-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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