Quality assurance in large terminologies is a difficult issue. We present two algorithms that can help terminology developers and users to identify potential areas of improvement. We demonstrate the methodology by applying the algorithms to one of the most popular terminologies, SNOMED-CT. Analysis of the results provides evidence for the thesis that both formal logical and linguistic tools sho...

Traditional medicines and herbal medicines, while having different approaches from conventional western medicine, have been recognized worldwide for their therapeutic values. The 2003 World Health Assembly (WHA) has enlisted traditional medicine as one of the major health care issues. The World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2002-2005 Traditional Medicine Strategy reported that the traditional med...

This descriptive study aimed to determine the familiarity and use of particular Hiligaynon terminologies. The respondents were 261 residents 25 barangays one municipalities in Iloilo, Philippines. data gathered using a researcher-made questionnaire that tested reliability validity. Results showed no longer familiar with did not When classified as sex age, male younger Estanciahanons mother-tong...

ATC classification is a WHO international classification used to classify drugs. The aim of this paper is to evaluate two lexical methods in English and in French to map ATC to UMLS. Several applications have been impemented to illustrate the use of the ATC mapping in English and French: (a) MeSH translation in Norwegian, (b) Drug Information Portal, and (c) ATC to PubMed tool. Two lexical meth...

BACKGROUND A health information exchange (HIE)-based prior computed tomography (CT) alerting system may reduce avoidable CT imaging by notifying ordering clinicians of prior relevant studies when a study is ordered. For maximal effectiveness, a system would alert not only for prior same CTs (exams mapped to the same code from an exam name terminology) but also for similar CTs (exams mapped to d...

Companies need to extract pertinent and coherent information from large collections of documents to be competitive and efficient. Structured terminologies are essential for a better drafting, translation or understanding of technical communication. WORLDTREK EDITION is a tool created to help the terminologist elaborate, browse and update structured terminologies in a ergonomic environment witho...

In the United States and Europe, electronic health records (EHRs) allow information technology and decision-support to facilitate the activities of clinicians and are considered an important component of health care improvement. However, actual adoption of EHRs by physicians has been slow and the use of decision support has been minimal. Part of the difficulty lies in the challenges that users ...

The use of computers and electronic documentation systems in the nursing environment has put forward new requirements on terminologies. In this paper, we present an introduction to the development of formal terminological systems along a cognitive, linguistic and communicative dimension. The goal is to arrive at formal terminologies that assist nurses in their documentation activities while min...