title: Mapping Russian Laboratory Terms to LOINC.
abstract: The paper presents the results of semiautomatic mapping of Russian laboratory terms to LOINC. Two clinics (A and B) and a laboratory service participated in the project. We were able to map 86% (Clinic A) and 87% (Clinic B) of laboratory terms. The required effort was reasonable and the price of mapping and maintenance was considered as relatively low. We established LOINC as a canonical coding method for a laboratory data exchange. This provided semantic interoperability for the data exchange process.
authors.affiliation: Tomsk Polytechnic University, Lenina 30, Tomsk, Russia.
authors.forename: Georgy
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kopanitsa
mesh_terms: D002984:Clinical Laboratory Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019411:Clinical Laboratory Techniques / Q000145:classification*; D057286:Electronic Health Records / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006751:Hospital Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D039703:Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes; D008498:Medical Record Linkage / Q000379:methods*; D012426:Russia; D012660:Semantics; D018511:Systems Integration; D009626:Terminology as Topic