U.S. Department of veterans affairs enterprise reference terminology strategic overview

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 107, Issue , 2004, Pages 391-395

  Lincoln, Michael J ^a,d   Brown, Steven H ^a,b   Nguyen, Viet ^a,d   Cromwell, Tim ^a   Carter, John ^c   Erlbaum, Mark ^c   Tuttle, Mark S ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c APELON INC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Controlled; Information Storage and Retrieval; Information Theory; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; INFORMATION THEORY; OPEN SYSTEMS; TERMINOLOGY;

CONTROLLED; DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS; DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTEGRATED HEALTHCARES; MAINTENANCE SERVICES; TERMINOLOGY SYSTEM; VOCABULARY; CLINICAL RECORDS; DATA REPOSITORIES; DRUG-LABORATORY; HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS; HEALTH DATA; PHYSICIAN ORDERS;

TERMINOLOGY; INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 79959630149     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-949-3-391     Document Type: Article

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