title: A framework for evaluating and utilizing medical terminology mappings.
abstract: Use of medical terminologies and mappings across them are considered to be crucial pre-requisites for achieving interoperable eHealth applications. Built upon the outcomes of several research projects, we introduce a framework for evaluating and utilizing terminology mappings that offers a platform for i) performing various mappings strategies, ii) representing terminology mappings together with their provenance information, and iii) enabling terminology reasoning for inferring both new and erroneous mappings. We present the results of the introduced framework from SALUS project where we evaluated the quality of both existing and inferred terminology mappings among standard terminologies.
authors.affiliation: INSERM, U1142, LIMICS, AP-HP, F-75006, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Sajjad
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hussain
authors.affiliation: Advanced Clinical Applications Research Group, Agfa HealthCare, Gent, Belgium.
authors.forename: Hong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.affiliation: Software Research, Development and Consultancy Ltd., Turkey.
authors.forename: Anil
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sinaci
authors.affiliation: Software Research, Development and Consultancy Ltd., Turkey.
authors.forename: Gokce Banu Laleci
authors.initials: GB
authors.lastname: Erturkmen
authors.affiliation: W3C Health Care and Life Sciences IG.
authors.forename: Charles
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mead
authors.affiliation: School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, UK.
authors.forename: Alasdair J G
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Gray
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, US.
authors.forename: Deborah L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: McGuinness
authors.affiliation: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Prud'Hommeaux
authors.affiliation: INSERM, U1142, LIMICS, AP-HP, F-75006, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Christel
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Daniel
authors.affiliation: AstraZeneca, Sweden.
authors.forename: Kerstin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Forsberg
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D004282:Documentation / Q000592:standards*; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D012660:Semantics; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled