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 …

Provision of automated support for planning protocol-directed therapy requires a computer
program to take as input clinical data stored in an electronic patient-record system and to …

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the ability of SNOMED CT (Systematized Nomenclature of
Medicine Clinical Terms) version 1.0 to represent the most common problems seen at the …

No Brasil, a disposição final inadequada de pneumáticos inservíveis gera problemas
ambientais de grandes proporções, principalmente, no meio ambiente urbano, tornando-se …

Domain ontologies are formal descriptions of the classes of concepts and the relationships
among those concepts that describe an application area. The Protege software-engineering …

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 …

PROTÉGÉ-II is a suite of tools and a methodology for building knowledge-based systems
and domain-specific knowledge-acquisition tools. In this paper, we show how PROTÉGÉ-II …

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 …

Computer-based systems that support health care require large controlled terminologies to
manage names and meanings of data elements. These terminologies are not static …