title: Segmenting healthcare terminology users: a strategic approach to large scale evolutionary development.
abstract: Healthcare terminologies have become larger and more complex, aiming to support a diverse range of functions across the whole spectrum of healthcare activity. Prioritization of development, implementation and evaluation can be achieved by regarding the "terminology" as an integrated system of content-based and functional components. Matching these components to target segments within the healthcare community, supports a strategic approach to evolutionary development and provides essential product differentiation to enable terminology providers and systems suppliers to focus on end-user requirements.
authors.affiliation: NHS Information Authority, (Coding and Classification), Loughborough, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Price
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Briggs
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Brown
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D008490:Medical Informatics; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled