Semantic Standards for the Representation of Medical Records

Angelo Rossi Mori, Elena Galeazzi, Aldo Gangemi, Domenico M. Pisanelli and Anna M. Thornton

Medical Decision Making, 1991, vol. 11, issue 4_suppl, S76-S80

Abstract: Physicians developed their sublanguage (a system to represent medical concepts and their relations) to store and transmit general medical knowledge and patient-related information. Adequate formalisms are needed to obtain a standard representation of semantics of medical expressions for computer use. Comparison of the semantic contents of two expressions is possible only if a unique canonical form is defined; the transmission of medical facts or patient-related information is really meaningful only by defining a set of primitives (semantic categories and links) and the domains of values (concepts). These primitives must be harmonized to yield a “common core subset†of semantic categories and links. This subset provides a common basis; a procedure to register extension sets of primitives must also be defined, to comply with specific representation needs of specialties and classes of application software.

Keywords: medical records; semantic standards (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1991
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