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J Am Med Inform Assoc 1997;4:356-363 doi:10.1136/jamia.1997.0040356
  • The Practice of Informatics
  • Application of Information Technology

A Web Terminology Server Using UMLS for the Description of Medical Procedures

  1. Anita Burgun,
  2. Patrick Denier,
  3. Olivier Bodenreider,
  4. Geneviève Botti,
  5. Denis Delamarre,
  6. Bruno Pouliquen,
  7. Philippe Oberlin,
  8. Jean M Lévéque,
  9. Bertrand Lukacs,
  10. François Kohler,
  11. Marius Fieschi,
  12. Pierre Le Beux
  1. Affiliations of the authors: Laboratoire d'Informatique Médicale Faculté de Médecine, Rennes, France (AB, PD, DD, BP, JML, PLB); Département d'Information Médicale, Nancy, France (OB, FK); Service de l'Information Médicale, Marseille, France (GB, MF); Groupe IMAGE Ecole Nationale de Santé Publique, St. Maurice, France (PO, BL)
  1. Correspondence and reprints: Professor Pierre Le Beux, Centre Hospitalier Regional, De Rennes, 2 Rue Henri Le Guilloux, F-35033 Rennes Cedex, FRANCE.E-mail: Pierre.Lebeux{at}univ-rennes1.fr
  • Received 30 December 1996
  • Accepted 14 May 1997

Abstract

The Model for Assistance in the Orientation of a User within Coding Systems (MAOUSSC) project has been designed to provide a representation for medical and surgical procedures that allows several applications to be developed from several viewpoints. It is based on a conceptual model, a controlled set of terms, and Web server development. The design includes the UMLS knowledge sources associated with additional knowledge about medico-surgical procedures. The model was implemented using a relational database. The authors developed a complete interface for the Web presentation, with the intermediary layer being written in PERL. The server has been used for the representation of medico-surgical procedures that occur in the discharge summaries of the national survey of hospital activities that is performed by the French Health Statistics Agency in order to produce inpatient profiles. The authors describe the current status of the MAOUSSC server and discuss their interest in using such a server to assist in the coordination of terminology tasks and in the sharing of controlled terminologies.

Footnotes

  • This work was funded in part by the French Health Statistics Agency (SESI).

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