Semantic similarity-based alignment between clinical archetypes and SNOMED CT: An application to observations

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 81, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 566-578

  Meizoso García, María ^a   Iglesias Allones, José Luis ^a   Martínez Hernández, Diego ^a   Taboada Iglesias, María Jesús ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Clinical archetypes; Electronic Health Records; Knowledge representation; Semantic interoperability; SNOMED CT; Terminology mapping

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ARCHETYPES; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; SEMANTIC INTEROPERABILITY; SNOMED CT; TERMINOLOGY MAPPING;

ALIGNMENT; DATA STRUCTURES; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; MAPPING; SEMANTICS; TERMINOLOGY;

INTEROPERABILITY;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONCEPT MAPPING; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SEMANTICS; SYSTEMATIZED NOMENCLATURE OF MEDICINE;

HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SEMANTICS; SYSTEMATIZED NOMENCLATURE OF MEDICINE;

EID: 84863783935     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: 18728243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2012.02.007     Document Type: Article

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