Practical experience with the maintenance and auditing of a large medical ontology

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 494-503

  Baorto, David ^a   Li, Li ^a   Cimino, James J ^b,c  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Department of Biomedical Informatics ^*  (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditing; Maintenance; Medical Entities Dictionary; Ontology; Semantic network; Terminology; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

ADDITIONAL KNOWLEDGE; AUDITING; CLINICAL APPLICATION; CLINICAL DATA; COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY; DATA REPOSITORIES; DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS; KNOWLEDGE BASE; LOCAL TERMS; MEDICAL ENTITIES DICTIONARY; MEDICAL ONTOLOGY; NEW YORK; ORIGINAL DESIGN; PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE; REAL TIME; SEMANTIC NETWORK; VOCABULARY;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MAINTAINABILITY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; TERMINOLOGY;

ONTOLOGY;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL STUDY; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTENT VALIDITY; DATA BASE; KNOWLEDGE BASE; LINGUISTICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; NETWORK LEARNING; NOMENCLATURE; PERSONNEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; STANDARD; VALIDATION PROCESS; WEB BROWSER;

MANAGEMENT AUDIT; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 65649139559     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2009.03.005     Document Type: Article

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