Builders of medical informatics applications need controlled medical vocabularies to support
their applications and it is to their advantage to use available standards. In order to do so …

Previous investigators have defined clinical interface terminology as a systematic collection
of health care–related phrases (terms) that supports clinicians' entry of patient-related …

We describe the framework for SNOMED RT (Reference Terminology), designed to
complement the broad coverage of medical concepts in SNOMED with a set of enhanced …

In this article, we define the electronic healthcare record and present its purpose as a tool for
continuity of care. We briefly describe the current situation of usage and focus on the major …

Abstract The LOINC (Logical Observation Identifier Names and Codes) vocabulary is a set of
more than 10,000 names and codes developed for use as observation identifiers in …

The GALEN representation and integration language (GRAIL) has been developed to
support effective clinical user interfaces and extensible re-usable models of medical …

A method and system for patient generation and evolution for a computer-based testing
system and/or expert system. One or more belief networks, which describe parallel health …

In this article, we describe the state of the art and directions of current development and
research with respect to the inclusion of medical narratives in electronic medical-record …

An apparatus and system are provided for retrieving elec tronic records from a database of
records, preferably in the form of medical records. The apparatus utilizes a knowledge base …

Background Identification of negation in electronic health records is essential if we are to
understand the computable meaning of the records: Our objective is to compare the …