title: Clinical terminology.
abstract: This chapter gives an educational overview of: * What a clinical terminology is * How clinical terminology is constructed and used * The concept of mapping terminologies * Why clinical terminology is an essential component of electronic health records and clinical decision support systems * The issues that relate to good use of terminologies and the need for governance and standardisation to support health information quality and the linkage to safe/consistent clinical decision support.
authors.affiliation: Austin Health, E-Health Education and Pavillion Prime Care, Melbourne, Australia. heather@lginformatics.com
authors.forename: Heather
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Grain
mesh_terms: D015510:Clinical Medicine; D019451:Information Management; D038801:International Classification of Diseases; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000458:organization & administration; D039061:Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine; D009626:Terminology as Topic