Developing a standard data structure for medical language--the SNOMED proposal.
Year: 1993
Type: article
Abstract: The Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine, Third Edition, SNOMED International, is a comprehensive structured nomenclature of human and veterinary medicine, the terms of which are detailed, fine grained and semantically typed. Terms are assigned to eleven independent modules (fields), each of which is systematized. Terms may be linked to on another to represent complex entities or manifestations or alternately complex terms dissected into their elemental parts. Terms are illustrated utilizing a frame representation. Efforts are in progress to build both a conceptual graph and a frame-based semantic network encompassing each SNOMED term, effectively building a knowledge base. In this way, the knowledge contained in each alphanumeric representation is made explicit. SNOMED is a linked data structure capable of faithfully representing the activities, observations and diagnoses found in the medical record in a computer processable form.
Source: PubMed Central
Authors: D J Rothwell, R A Cote, J P Cordeau, M A Boisvert
Language: English
Subfield: Health Informatics
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1950481783