title: An Ontology driven collaborative development for biomedical terminologies: from the French CCAM to the Australian ICHI coding system.
abstract: The CCAM French coding system of clinical procedures was developed between 1994 and 2004 using, in parallel, a traditional domain expert's consensus method on one hand, and advanced methodologies of ontology driven semantic representation and multilingual generation on the other hand. These advanced methodologies were applied under the framework of an European Union collaborative research project named GALEN and produced a new generation of biomedical terminology. Following the interest in several countries and in WHO, the GALEN network has tested the application of the ontology driven tools to the existing reduced Australian ICHI coding system for interventions presently under investigation by WHO to check its ability and appropriateness to become the reference international coding system for procedures. The initial results are presented and discussed in terms of feasibility and quality assurance for sharing and maintaining consistent medical knowledge and allowing diversity in linguistic expressiveness of end users.
authors.affiliation: University of Saint Etienne, France.
authors.forename: Jean M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Rodrigues
authors.forename: Alan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rector
authors.forename: Pieter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zanstra
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Baud
authors.forename: Kerry
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Innes
authors.forename: Jeremy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rogers
authors.forename: Anne M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Rassinoux
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schulz
authors.forename: Beatrice
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Trombert Paviot
authors.forename: Huib
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: ten Napel
authors.forename: Lucienne
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Clavel
authors.forename: Egbert
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: van der Haring
authors.forename: Ceu
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mateus
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005568:Forms and Records Control / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005602:France; D008490:Medical Informatics; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000145:classification; D009626:Terminology as Topic