Meaningful use of pharmacogenomics in health records: Semantics should be made explicit

Pharmacogenomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 81-87

  Shabo, Amnon ^a  

^a IBM HAIFA RESEARCH LAB   (Israel)

Author keywords

Electronic health records; Health information standards; Personalized healthcare; Semantic interoperability; Semantic machine processability

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALIZATION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PHARMACOGENOMICS; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; PHARMACOGENETICS; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 73549088497     PISSN: 14622416     EISSN: 17448042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/pgs.09.161     Document Type: Review

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