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Semantic Standards for the Representation of Medical Records

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  • Angelo Rossi Mori
  • Elena Galeazzi
  • Aldo Gangemi
  • Domenico M. Pisanelli
  • Anna M. Thornton

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Physicians developed their sublanguage (a system to represent medical concepts and their relations) to store and transmit general medical knowledge and patient-related information. Adequate formalisms are needed to obtain a standard representation of semantics of medical expressions for computer use. Comparison of the semantic contents of two expressions is possible only if a unique canonical form is defined; the transmission of medical facts or patient-related information is really meaningful only by defining a set of primitives (semantic categories and links) and the domains of values (concepts). These primitives must be harmonized to yield a “common core subset†of semantic categories and links. This subset provides a common basis; a procedure to register extension sets of primitives must also be defined, to comply with specific representation needs of specialties and classes of application software.

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  • Angelo Rossi Mori & Elena Galeazzi & Aldo Gangemi & Domenico M. Pisanelli & Anna M. Thornton, 1991. "Semantic Standards for the Representation of Medical Records," Medical Decision Making, , vol. 11(4_suppl), pages 76-80, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:medema:v:11:y:1991:i:4_suppl:p:s76-s80
    DOI: 10.1177/0272989X9101104s15
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