title: The research in semantics behind the OpenLabs coding system.
abstract: The OpenLabs coding system is an established, comprehensive, dynamic, flexible, open, multilingual European system which is tailored to meet the electronic data interchange (EDI) needs of medical laboratory users. The OpenLabs coding system, having many specific, independent classes and considerable flexibility, serves two different objectives: (i) unambiguous coding of entities present in messages used for EDI in clinical pathology; and (ii) interfacing with other nomenclatures and coding schemes to map concepts between different systems.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Informatics, State University Gent, Belgium.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: De Moor
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Fiers
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wieme
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Scott
mesh_terms: D002965:Classification; D002984:Clinical Laboratory Information Systems; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003199:Computer Systems; D012106:Research; D012660:Semantics; D012984:Software; D009626:Terminology as Topic