Abstract

This contract will provide NLM with research support for the maintenance and enhancement of the UMLS Metathesaurus. Work will focus on six areas: (1) analysis of the structure and semantics of a variety of biomedical vocabularies and databases; (2) the development of the logic and algorithms for preprocessing and editing these sources so data from them can be merged by the Metathesaurus maintenance engine; (3) development of algorithms for the simultaneous maintenance of multiple source vocabularies within the Metathesaurus environment; (4) the lexical and semantic analysis of the Metathesaurus to identify potential errors and omitted relationships; (5) definition of the structure and capabilities required to support high performance remote editing and distributed maintenance of the Metathesaurus; and (6) the development of procedures for more effective electronic dissemination of the Metathesaurus.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Type
Research and Development Contracts (N01)
Project #
N01LM033515-007
Application #
2319551
Study Section
Project Start
1993-06-30
Project End
1996-06-30
Budget Start
1994-09-30
Budget End
1995-10-30
Support Year
Fiscal Year
1994
Total Cost
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
Lexical Technology, Inc.
Department
Type
DUNS #
City
Alameda
State
CA
Country
United States
Zip Code
94501

  Publications

Halamka, John D; Mandl, Kenneth D; Tang, Paul C (2008) Early experiences with personal health records. J Am Med Inform Assoc 15:1-7
Freifeld, Clark C; Mandl, Kenneth D; Reis, Ben Y et al. (2008) HealthMap: global infectious disease monitoring through automated classification and visualization of Internet media reports. J Am Med Inform Assoc 15:150-7
Mandl, Kenneth D; Simons, William W; Crawford, William C R et al. (2007) Indivo: a personally controlled health record for health information exchange and communication. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 7:25
Reis, Ben Y; Kirby, Chaim; Hadden, Lucy E et al. (2007) AEGIS: a robust and scalable real-time public health surveillance system. J Am Med Inform Assoc 14:581-8
McMurry, Andrew J; Gilbert, Clint A; Reis, Ben Y et al. (2007) A self-scaling, distributed information architecture for public health, research, and clinical care. J Am Med Inform Assoc 14:527-33
Levine, Mark; Adida, Ben; Mandl, Kenneth et al. (2007) What are the benefits and risks of fitting patients with radiofrequency identification devices. PLoS Med 4:e322
Mohtashemi, Mojdeh; Szolovits, Peter; Dunyak, James et al. (2006) A susceptible-infected model of early detection of respiratory infection outbreaks on a background of influenza. J Theor Biol 241:954-63
Adida, Ben; Kohane, Isaac S (2006) GenePING: secure, scalable management of personal genomic data. BMC Genomics 7:93
Fraser, Hamish S F; Biondich, Paul; Moodley, Deshen et al. (2005) Implementing electronic medical record systems in developing countries. Inform Prim Care 13:83-95
Sax, U; Schmidt, S (2005) Integration of genomic data in Electronic Health Records--opportunities and dilemmas. Methods Inf Med 44:546-50

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