title: Using a terminology server and consumer search phrases to help patients find physicians with particular expertise.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To design and implement a real world application using a terminology server to assist patients and physicians who use common language search terms to find specialist physicians with a particular clinical expertise.
  
  
  METHODS
  Terminology servers have been developed to help users encoding of information using complicated structured vocabulary during data entry tasks, such as recording clinical information. We describe a methodology using Personal Health Terminology trade mark and a SNOMED CT-based hierarchical concept server.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Construction of a pilot mediated-search engine to assist users who use vernacular speech in querying data which is more technical than vernacular.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This approach, which combines theoretical and practical requirements, provides a useful example of concept-based searching for physician referrals.
authors.affiliation: Weill Medical College of Cornell University, 1300 York Avenue A123, New York, NY 10021, USA.
authors.forename: Curtis L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Cole
authors.forename: Andrew S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Kanter
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cummens
authors.forename: Sean
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Vostinar
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Naeymi-Rad
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing; D003256:Community Participation; D016208:Databases, Factual; D006801:Humans; D007255:Information Services; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D008511:Medicine; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D010865:Pilot Projects; D013038:Specialization; D039061:Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled