Percentages of Purpose of UMLS Uses by Organizations
| Overall | University | Software | Health Care | |
| Education | 7 | 12 | 0 | 10 |
| Electronic Health Record | 14 | 18 | 6 | 30 |
| Information Retrieval | 27 | 26 | 35 | 10 |
| Natural Language Processing | 17 | 24 | 0 | 0 |
| UMLS Research | 19 | 32 | 0 | 10 |
| System Development | 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| Terminology Research | 53 | 35 | 71 | 80 |
| Terminology Translation | 20 | 18 | 35 | 0 |
| Decision Support | 4 | 0 | 6 | 20 |
| Special Uses | 4 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| No answers | 16 | 15 | 24 | 10 |
| Average | 17 | 17 | 17 | 15 |









