Abstract Background The traditional Chinese Medicine Language System (TCMLS) is a
large-scale terminology system, developed from 2002 on by the Institute of Information of …

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) as a complete knowledge system researches into
human health conditions via a different approach compared to orthodox medicine. We are …

Abstract Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a complicated and huge knowledge system
with a long history. As the information technology step forward, more and more problems …

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has been used for thousands of years in China for the
purposes of health maintenance, disease prevention and treatment of health problems …

Objectives: Medical decision support and other intelligent applications in the life sciences
depend on increasing amounts of digital information. Knowledge bases as well as formal …

Background SNOMED CT is the most comprehensive medical terminology. However, its use
for intelligent services based on formal reasoning is questionable. Methods The analysis of …

The modeling of knowledge and its implementation in software systems is not sufficiently
supported by proper guidelines and well-established principles. An interdisciplinary …

After a critical review of the present architecture of SNOMED CT, addressing both logical
and ontological issues, we present a roadmap toward an overall improvement and …

This paper discusses the potential of ontologies as elements in Information Technology (IT)
support for Knowledge Management (KM), particularly in the medical domain. It also details …

Introduction The use and interoperability of clinical knowledge starts with the quality of the
formalism utilized to express medical expertise. However, a crucial challenge is that existing …