A Web Terminology Server Using UMLS for the Description of Medical Procedures

Burgun, Anita; Denier, P; Bodenreider, Olivier; Botti, G.; Delamarre, Denis; Pouliquen, Bruno; Oberlin, P.; Lévéque, Jean M.; Lukacs, B.; Kohler, François; Fieschi, Marius; Beux, P. Le

doi:10.1136/jamia.1997.0040356

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“…Nadkarni created the Concept Locator, a relational database of the Metathesaurus to support client-based Boolean queries for term look-up [25]. Burgun and colleagues created the Model for Assistance in the Orientation of a User within Coding Systems (MAOUSSC), a Web-based terminology server that supports UMLS term look-up with semantic restrictions, to support the encoding of medical procedures [26]. Dierks and colleagues describe an architecture for a coordinated suite of servers, one of which is the Vocabulary Server for UMLS term look-up [27].…”

Section: Terminology Serversmentioning

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Terminology Tools: State of the Art and Practical Lessons

Cimino¹

2001

Methods Inf Med

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Summary Objectives: As controlled medical terminologies evolve from simple code-name-hierarchy arrangements, into rich, knowledge-based ontologies of medical concepts, increased demands are placed on both the developers and users of the terminologies. In response, researchers have begun developing tools to address their needs. The aims of this article are to review previous work done to develop these tools and then to describe work done at Columbia University and New York Presbyterian Hospital (NYPH). Methods: Researchers working with the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED), the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS), and NYPH’s Medical Entities Dictionary (MED) have created a wide variety of terminology browsers, editors and servers to facilitate creation, maintenance and use of these terminologies. Results: Although much work has been done, no generally available tools have yet emerged. Consensus on requirement for tool functions, especially terminology servers is emerging. Tools at NYPH have been used successfully to support the integration of clinical applications and the merger of health care institutions. Conclusions: Significant advancement has occurred over the past fifteen years in the development of sophisticated controlled terminologies and the tools to support them. The tool set at NYPH provides a case study to demonstrate one feasible architecture.

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Section: Terminology Serversmentioning

confidence: 99%

Terminology Tools: State of the Art and Practical Lessons

Cimino¹

2001

Methods Inf Med

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“…Up to now, we have used the UMLS Metathesaurus and the UMLS Semantic Network to fill in this model for several medical specialities [141 . The last part of the project was to develop a web server in order to give access to the model and several versions of procedure catalogs to all the participants [15]. Theaimofthisapplication is to build a terminology server which can help the user to find a medical term, concept or nomenclature entry by entering a free-text sentence.…”

Section: Medical Nomenclature and Terminology Servermentioning

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Medical Informatics Training and Research at Rennes University School of Medicine

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The University of Rennes Medical School has offered Medical informatics training since 1988; at the same time, research in medical informatics was started. This paper describes the teaching programs at both the undergraduate level and at the graduate level. Research topics comprise fundamental research on biomedical models, ontologies for medical knowledge representations, natural language processing, and research for diagnosis and therapeutic aids. We have developed a local area network which communicates between the School of Medicine and the University Hospital, both internally (Intranet) and externally by access to the National Research network (RENA TER) in France, which is connected to the internet.

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