Title:
TERMINOLOGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO2005008558
Kind Code:
A3
Abstract:
Various embodiments provide a system for use in managing healthcare terminology supporting operation of a healthcare enterprise, comprising: a first repository including a first set of healthcare related terms; a second repository including a centralized second set of healthcare related terms encompassing terms of a plurality of terminology sets including the first set of healthcare related terms, the centralized second set including a group of one or more component terms associated with an individual term of the first set; and an interpretation processor for selecting, from the centralized second set, a subgroup of the group of one or more component terms associated with an individual received term of the first set in response to processing of context information associated with the individual received term, using predetermined rules.
Inventors:
HASKELL ROBERT EMMONS
Application Number:
PCT/US2004/021795
Publication Date:
August 04, 2005
Filing Date:
July 08, 2004
Export Citation:
Assignee:
SIEMENS MED SOLUTIONS HEALTH (US)
International Classes:
G06F17/27; G16B50/20; G16B50/30; G16H10/60; G16H15/00; G16H50/20; G16H70/60; (IPC1-7): G06F19/00
Foreign References:
| EP1304645A2 | 2003-04-23 |
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