Document 0266
 DOCN  M9650266
 TI    A web-based architecture for a medical vocabulary server.
 DT    9605
 AU    Gennari JH; Oliver DE; Pratt W; Rice J; Musen MA; Section on Medical
       Informatics, Knowledge Systems Laboratory,; Stanford University, CA
       94305-5479, USA.
 SO    Proc Annu Symp Comput Appl Med Care. 1995;:275-9. Unique Identifier :
       AIDSLINE MED/96123727
 AB    For health care providers to share computing resources and medical
       application programs across different sites, those applications must
       share a common medical vocabulary. To construct a common vocabulary,
       researchers must have an architecture that supports collaborative,
       networked development. In this paper, we present a web-based server
       architecture for the collaborative development of a medical vocabulary:
       a system that provides network services in support of medical
       applications that need a common, controlled medical terminology. The
       server supports vocabulary browsing and editing and can respond to
       direct programmatic queries about vocabulary terms. We have tested the
       programmatic query-response capability of the vocabulary server with a
       medical application that determines when patients who have HIV infection
       may be eligible for certain clinical trials. Our emphasis in this paper
       is not on the content of the vocabulary, but rather on the communication
       protocol and the tools that enable collaborative improvement of the
       vocabulary by any network-connected user.
 DE    *Computer Communication Networks  *Computer Systems  Programming
       Languages  Software  Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.  Support, U.S.
       Gov't, P.H.S.  User-Computer Interface  *Vocabulary, Controlled  JOURNAL
       ARTICLE

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