TY - GEN
T1 - Auditing of SNOMED CT's Hierarchical Structure using the National Drug File - Reference Terminology
AU - Zakharchenko, Aleksandr
AU - Geller, James
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI).
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - With the ongoing development in the field of Medical Informatics, the availability of cross-references and the consistency of coverage between terminologies become critical requirements for clinical decision support. In this paper, we examine the possibility of developing a framework that highlights and exposes hierarchical incompatibilities between different medical terminologies in order to facilitate the process of achieving a sufficient level of consistency between terminologies. For the purpose of this research, we are working with the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine-Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) and the National Drug File - Reference Terminology (NDF-RT)-a clinical terminology focused on drugs. For discovery of inconsistencies we built an automated tool.
AB - With the ongoing development in the field of Medical Informatics, the availability of cross-references and the consistency of coverage between terminologies become critical requirements for clinical decision support. In this paper, we examine the possibility of developing a framework that highlights and exposes hierarchical incompatibilities between different medical terminologies in order to facilitate the process of achieving a sufficient level of consistency between terminologies. For the purpose of this research, we are working with the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine-Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) and the National Drug File - Reference Terminology (NDF-RT)-a clinical terminology focused on drugs. For discovery of inconsistencies we built an automated tool.
KW - Biomedical Ontologies
KW - Health Care Quality Assurance
KW - SNOMED CT
KW - Terminology as Topic
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U2 - 10.3233/978-1-61499-512-8-130
DO - 10.3233/978-1-61499-512-8-130
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 25991116
AN - SCOPUS:84937433684
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SP - 130
EP - 134
BT - Digital Healthcare Empowering Europeans - Proceedings of MIE 2015
A2 - Cornet, Ronald
A2 - Stoicu-Tivadar, Lacramioara
A2 - Cornet, Ronald
A2 - Parra Calderon, Carlos Luis
A2 - Andersen, Stig Kjaer
A2 - Horbst, Alexander
A2 - Hercigonja-Szekeres, Mira
PB - IOS Press
T2 - 26th Medical Informatics in Europe Conference, MIE 2015
Y2 - 27 May 2015 through 29 May 2015
ER -