Integration of structured and unstructured text data in a clinical information system

Journal of Integrated Design and Process Science

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 61-77

  Wei, Ching Song D ^a   Sung, Sam Y ^b   Doong, Simon J ^c   Ng, Peter A ^d  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Department of Computer Science   (United States)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PAN AMERICAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical information systems; Data exchange and sharing; Data interoperability; EXtensible Markup Language document; Graphic user interface; Structured and unstructured data source transformation and integration

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MICROPHONES; XML;

CLINICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; DATA EXCHANGE AND SHARING; DATA INTEROPERABILITY; KNOWLEDGE EXTRACTION; UNSTRUCTURED DATA;

DATA STRUCTURES;

EID: 33846095777     PISSN: 10920617     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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