MedWeaver: integrating decision support, literature searching, and Web exploration using the UMLS Metathesaurus
MedWeaver: integrating decision support, literature searching, and Web exploration using the UMLS Metathesaurus
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1997
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W. Detmer;G. Barnett;W. Hersh
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W. Detmer;G. Barnett;W. Hersh
一段时间以来，医学信息学社区一直对集成来自不同的和广泛分布的信息系统的功能感兴趣。阻碍取得进展的障碍包括缺乏可通过网络获取的信息来源、系统间信息传递方法不足以及缺乏词汇翻译服务。随着万维网（WWW）的出现和国家医学图书馆统一医学语言系统（UMLS）的发展，现在可以开发集成来自不同分布式系统的功能的应用程序。在本文中，我们描述了这样一个系统，MedWeaver，WWW应用程序，集成功能的决策支持应用程序（DXplain），文献检索系统（WebMedline），和临床Web搜索系统（CliniWeb）使用UMLS元词库词汇翻译。该系统演示了应用程序开发人员如何围绕预期的临床信息需求设计系统，然后从不同来源汇集所需的内容和功能。
Integrating functions from disparate and widely-distributed information systems has been an interest of the medical informatics community for some time. Barriers to progress have included the lack of network-accessible information sources, inadequate methods for inter-system messaging, and lack of vocabulary translation services. With the advent of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the evolution of the National Library of Medicine's Unified Medical Language System (UMLS), it is now possible to develop applications that integrate functions from diverse, distributed systems. In this paper we describe one such system, MedWeaver, a WWW application that integrates functions from a decision support application (DXplain), a literature searching system (WebMedline), and a clinical Web searching system (CliniWeb) using the UMLS Metathesaurus for vocabulary translation. This system demonstrates how application developers can design systems around anticipated clinical information needs and then draw together the needed content and functionality from diverse sources.