title: Vocabulary metadata service for terminology servers to handle variations in design of various biomedical terminologies.
abstract: Terminology servers provide access to various biomedical terminologies for authoring and maintenance, in addition to automated use by various clinical and administrative applications and interface engines. HL7 Common Terminology Services (CTS) intends to provide standard interfaces for accessing terminology services within and across organizations. However, variations in designs of different terminologies make this hard to achieve. We describe a novel solution to this issue, and hope to integrate this into the HL7 CTS2 standard.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
authors.forename: Senthil K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Nachimuthu
mesh_terms: D005568:Forms and Records Control; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000592:standards*; D008498:Medical Record Linkage / Q000592:standards*; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000592:standards*; D046650:Medical Subject Headings; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D012015:Reference Standards; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D014589:Utah