TY - JOUR
T1 - Representation of change in controlled medical terminologies
AU - Oliver, Diane E.
AU - Shahar, Yuval
AU - Shortliffe, Edward H.
AU - Musen, Mark A.
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank Gio Wiederhold for his contributions to the ideas presented here, and Lyn Dupre for editing this manuscript. Diane Oliver is supported by training grant EM-07033 from the National Library of Medicine. Yuval Shahar is supported by grants LM-06245 from the National Library of Medicine and 9528444 from the National Science Foundation.
PY - 1999/1/1
Y1 - 1999/1/1
N2 - Computer-based systems that support health care require large controlled terminologies to manage names and meanings of data elements. These terminologies are not static, because change in health care is inevitable. To share data and applications in health care, we need standards not only for terminologies and concept representation, but also for representing change. To develop a principled approach to managing change, we analyze the requirements of controlled medical terminologies and consider features that frame knowledge-representation systems have to offer. Based on our analysis, we present a concept model, a set of change operations, and a change-documentation model that may be appropriate for controlled terminologies in health care. We are currently implementing our modeling approach within a computational architecture.
AB - Computer-based systems that support health care require large controlled terminologies to manage names and meanings of data elements. These terminologies are not static, because change in health care is inevitable. To share data and applications in health care, we need standards not only for terminologies and concept representation, but also for representing change. To develop a principled approach to managing change, we analyze the requirements of controlled medical terminologies and consider features that frame knowledge-representation systems have to offer. Based on our analysis, we present a concept model, a set of change operations, and a change-documentation model that may be appropriate for controlled terminologies in health care. We are currently implementing our modeling approach within a computational architecture.
KW - Computer-based patient record
KW - Concept representation
KW - Controlled medical terminology
KW - Description logic
KW - Frame knowledge-representation language
KW - Knowledge representation
KW - Ontology
KW - Terminology maintenance
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U2 - 10.1016/S0933-3657(98)00045-1
DO - 10.1016/S0933-3657(98)00045-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0032898174
SN - 0933-3657
VL - 15
SP - 53
EP - 76
JO - Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
JF - Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
IS - 1
ER -