An automated system for conversion of clinical notes into SNOMED clinical terminology

Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series

Volumn 68, Issue , 2007, Pages 219-226

  Patrick, Jon ^a   Wang, Yefeng ^a   Budd, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Concept Indexing; Concept Mapping; Information Retrieval; Medical Terminology; SNOMED CT

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED SYSTEMS; AUTOMATIC CONVERSION; CLINICAL TERMINOLOGY; CONCEPT INDEXING; CONCEPT MAPPING; FREE TEXTS; HOSPITAL ENVIRONMENT; MEDICAL CONCEPTS; MEDICAL ONTOLOGY; MEDICAL TERMINOLOGIES; NEAR-REAL TIME; PATIENT DATA; POINT OF CARE; REAL TIME; SNOMED-CT;

AUTOMATION; GRID COMPUTING; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SECURITY OF DATA;

TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 84871199980     PISSN: 14451336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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