DocumentCode :
2737956
Title :
Extracting a partition from a complex schema of a medical terminology
Author :
Gu, Huanying ; Perl, Yehoshua ; Halper, Michael ; Geller, James ; Kuo, Feng-shen ; Cimino, James J.
Author_Institution :
Health Inf. Dept., UMDNJ, Newark, NJ, USA
fYear :
2000
fDate :
2000
Firstpage :
262
Lastpage :
267
Abstract :
Controlled medical terminologies are increasingly becoming strategic components of various healthcare enterprises. However, a typical medical terminology can be difficult to exploit due to its extensive size and high density. The schema of a medical terminology offered by an object-oriented database representation provides an abstract view of a terminology. Thus, the schema enhances terminology comprehensibility, presentation and usability. However, terminology schemas themselves can be large and unwieldy. In this paper, we present a methodology for partitioning a medical terminology schema into more manageably-sized fragments that promote increased comprehension. The application of our methodology to the schema of a large, existing medical terminology, called the Medical Entities Dictionary, is presented
Keywords :
dictionaries; medical information systems; nomenclature; object-oriented databases; Medical Entities Dictionary; abstract view; complex database schema partitioning; healthcare enterprises; medical terminology; object-oriented database representation; terminology comprehensibility; terminology presentation; terminology usability; Biomedical informatics; Control systems; Dictionaries; Error correction; Information systems; Medical control systems; Medical services; Object oriented databases; Terminology; Unified modeling language;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine, 2000. Proceedings. 2000 IEEE EMBS International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Arlington, VA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6449-X
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ITAB.2000.892398
Filename :
892398
Link To Document :
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