Development of a health informatics community-generated, open-source controlled medical vocabulary.

Cardenas I, Marcelo AB, Fontelo P

AMIA Annu Symp Proc [Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium]; 2010 Nov 13-17; Washington DC. p. 998.

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Abstract:

A standardized set of terminology wasdeveloped from submissions of members of thehealth informatics and medical communities inthe Philippines of clinical terms from patient-healthcareprovider clinical encounters. Thesevocabularies will be used in OpenMRS, anopen-source electronic health record to bedeployed in rural health clinics. This will alsoserve as a model for a translating MeSH termsto non-English terms for searching MEDLINElike BabelMeSH, a multilanguage search tool.

Cardenas I, Marcelo AB, Fontelo P. Development of a health informatics community-generated, open-source controlled medical vocabulary. 
AMIA Annu Symp Proc [Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium]; 2010 Nov 13-17; Washington DC. p. 998.