Functional requirements of terminology services for coupling interface terminologies to reference terminologies.
Author(s) -
Christel Daniel,
Antoine Buemi,
Laurent Mazuel,
David Ouagne,
Jean Charlet
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
studies in health technology and informatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.304
H-Index - 58
ISSN - 0926-9630
DOI - 10.3233/978-1-60750-044-5-205
Desiderata for interface terminologies (IT), designed to support interactions between humans and structured medical information, differ from desiderata for reference terminologies (RT). Terminology experts have recommended that IT be mapped to RT. The interface terminology of the Georges Pompidou European Hospital (GPEH-IT) contains more than 5,000 concepts, sometimes linked to ICD-10 but not yet to the SNOMED 3.5 VF, now available in France. Our objective was to use a formal characterization framework to compare GPEH-IT to SNOMED 3.5 VF and to define the functionalities of terminology services for managing both IT and RT and the mapping between them. We discuss the role of IT and RT in representing the meaning of clinical data.
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