Clinical terminology server
A clinical terminology server is a terminology server, which contains and provides access to clinical terminology.
Background
[edit]The first generic description of general terminology servers per se was produced by the European GALEN Project. Rector et al. outline the functional attributes of the GALEN terminology server.
A clinical terminology server provides the following services to client applications:
- management of external references
- management of internal representations
- mapping natural language to concepts and vv
- mapping concepts to medical classification schemes
- management of extrinsic information
The main purpose of a clinical terminology server is to allow the consistent and comparable entry of clinical data, e.g. patient observations, findings and events.
References
[edit]- Rector AL, Solomon WD, Nowlan WA, Rush TW, Zanstra PE, Claassen WM (1995). "A Terminology Server for Medical Language and Medical Information Systems" (PDF). Methods Inf Med. 34 (1–2): 147–57. doi:10.1055/s-0038-1634569. PMID 9082124. S2CID 7978610. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-03-08.
- CG Chute, PL Elkin, DD Sherertz, MS Tuttle, (1999), Desiderata for a Clinical Terminology Server
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