The MeDEA project: supporting coding of medical documents

Author

Rossi-Mori, Angelo ; Pisanelli, Domenico M. ; Chiappetta, Paolo ; Riccardi, Marco

Author_Institution

Istituto Technol. Biomed., CNR, Rome, Italy

fYear

1989

fDate

9-12 Nov 1989

Firstpage

1914

Abstract

A description is given of the MeDEA project, which was conceived to assist health operators in the application of coding or indexing directives related to a specific representation scheme (namely coding death certificates and hospital discharge forms with ICD and DRG-like systems). The project was approached in a global manner, since it depends on the solution of very general problems on medical knowledge and its representation, due to the amount of knowledge and the complexity of the relationships concerned. A modular architecture and knowledge-based methods were used. Portability among applications, friendliness, and ease of maintenance were pursued by singling out basic knowledge, task knowledge, and domain knowledge from higher level programs

Keywords

medical administrative data processing; MeDEA project; basic knowledge; death certificates; domain knowledge; health operators; higher level programs; hospital discharge forms; indexing directives; knowledge-based methods; medical documents coding; modular architecture; task knowledge; Availability; Centralized control; Diseases; Encoding; Hospitals; Information retrieval; Information systems; Knowledge based systems; Management training; Medical control systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1989. Images of the Twenty-First Century., Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1989.96521

Filename

96521