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Developing Techniques For Enhancing Comprehensibility Of Controlled Medical Terminologies, Huanying Gu
Developing Techniques For Enhancing Comprehensibility Of Controlled Medical Terminologies, Huanying Gu
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A controlled medical terminology (CMT) is a collection of concepts (or terms) that are used in the medical domain. Typically, a CMT also contains attributes of those concepts and/or relationships between those concepts. Electronic CMTs are extremely useful and important for communication between and integration of independent information systems in healthcare, because data in this area is highly fragmented. A single query in this area might involve several databases, e.g., a clinical database, a pharmacy database, a radiology database, and a lab test database.
Unfortunately, the extensive sizes of CMTs, often containing tens of thousands of concepts and hundreds of …