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T erminologies, Semantic interoperability 1 Terminologies, Semantic interoperability Concepts Basic uses of terminology Purpose of classifications Ontology ICD international classification of disease SNOMED CT Concepts Descriptions Relationships Benefits of SNOMED CT Pre-coordinated expression Properties of SNOMED CT UMLS UMLS in use Metathesaurus Semantic Network Relationships may not hold at the concept level Granularity varies across the semantic network SPECIALIST Lexicon & T ools Morphology Syntax Orthography Lexical Entry Formatting Normalization tool W ord Index Lexical V ariant Generation (L VG) Main UMLS use Natural Language Processing Uses of NLP Why NLP is possible? Steps of NLP Named Entity Recognition problems T erminologies, Semantic interoperability 2 The need for terminologies is to have different health care professionals contribute to data collection and interpretation. Communication is a huge driver for good care of the patient, through all the central points in healthcare. We should assure privacy, data loss and maintenance of meaning per se, so not only the data physically but also its interpretation. Automatic interpration of data from PC programs must be exploited (critical decision support systems) therefore if the data is not standardized, the machine can’t elaborate it. Data should also be available for epidemiological studies and research, how to deal with pandemic nowadays, or for the overall health monitoring of nations. It is not anymore a problem of understanding the meaning in this case, but it’s only about collecting the data in a standardized way. Clinical Ideas are the essence of anything we want to record and are the building blocs of EHR. Terminology is the set of special words or phrases that are used in a particular field. The…