A Dutch Treat for Healthcare Terminology
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Structured and encoded information are important to maximize the meaningful (re)use of the Electronic Health Record (EHR). SNOMED CT is generally regarded as the preferred terminology system for encoding, but it has been shown that manual encoding (i.e., fully structured data entry) has issues with data quality and usability. Therefore, automated SNOMED CT encoding of free-text clinical narratives needs to be explored, which involves both post-hoc processing of yet unstructured records and ad-hoc processing of text being entered into a record.
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تاریخ انتشار 2013