Automatic Mapping tool of local laboratory terminologies to LOINC

Author

Parcero, Estibaliz ; Maldonado, Jose Alberto ; Marco, Luis ; Robles, Montserrat ; Berez, Victoria ; Mas, Toni ; Rodriguez, M.

Author_Institution

IBIME, Univ. Politec. de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

fYear

2013

fDate

20-22 June 2013

Firstpage

409

Lastpage

412

Abstract

Clinical concepts and terminologies usually differ from one software system to another, making the exchange of data between them a very arduous and difficult task. It mainly involves finding the correspondences between the local identifiers of the concepts to be exchanged. In this paper, we describe a software tool called SAM (Automatic Mapping System), a tool for terminological normalization of laboratory tests to LOINC. SAM helps technicians in this task through simplification of the terminological mapping process. It uses approximate string matching techniques along with a thorough mining of previous mappings and LOINC parts.

Keywords

data mining; electronic data interchange; medical information systems; string matching; LOINC; SAM tool; approximate string matching techniques; automatic mapping system; automatic mapping tool; clinical concepts; clinical terminologies; data exchange; data mining; laboratory testing; local identifiers; local laboratory terminologies; software system; technicians; terminological mapping process; terminological normalization; Couplings; Databases; Information filters; Proteins; Standards; Terminology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS), 2013 IEEE 26th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Porto

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CBMS.2013.6627828

Filename

6627828