title: The architecture of a distributed medical dictionary.
abstract: Exploiting high-speed computer networks to provide a national medical information infrastructure is a goal for medical informatics. The Distributed Medical Dictionary under development at Baylor College of Medicine is a model for an architecture that supports collaborative development of a distributed online medical terminology knowledge-base. A prototype is described that illustrates the concept. Issues that must be addressed by such a system include high availability, acceptable response time, support for local idiom, and control of vocabulary.
authors.affiliation: Medical Informatics and Computing Research Program, Baylor College of Medicine, 3730 Kirby Drive, Suite 1165, Houston, Texas 77098.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fowler
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Buffone
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Moreau
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D004018:Dictionaries, Medical as Topic; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D017432:Unified Medical Language System