2000 Volume 20 Issue 6 Pages 513-522
Structured healthcare terminology is one of the most important bases of EPR system. Standard terminology should respond to several basic requirements, which are non-redundancy, non-ambiguity, consistency, etc. Actual terminologies, however, hardly satisfy these requirements. In order to harmonize the formal requirements and practical usage, authors proposed a system based on Atom dictionary that contain prior representations of basic concepts and synonyms with domain classification. It has also, normalized terminology, quotation index, and tools of parsing and composing. This model can provide an easier process for editing standard healthcare terminology without significant consideration on semantic network, which can be given by original reference terminologies. It will offer users better accessibility to standard terminology. This paper introduce the structure of the system and reports the results of two applications on this idea to automatic diagnostic representations to ICD-10 and Japanese interpretation of SNOMED.
