Prabhu,
that sounds a lot like VistA (MUMPS/Cache) and its "modernized" vocab
management. Central ("locked-down") vocabs pushed into every system - all
entries given unique ids (called "VUID"s). Was this a custom, in-house
system or ...?
Conor
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Prabhu Shankar <prv_shankar@yahoo.com>wrote:
> Conor, I have worked with MUMPS/Cache based EHR where the local data
> dictionaries were duplicates of controlled vocabularies/ Ontology. This way
> mapping, updating and maintaining is much easier. I worked on ways to tag
> (annotate) the data end users capture (MD/RN) to these data dictionaries, at
> the time of data entry itself. This way we could capture research required
> data discretely and reduce the dependency on natural language processing to
> a certain extent.
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> Regards,
> Prabhu
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> "If a drop of water falls in lake there is no identity.But if it falls
> on a leaf of lotus it shine like a pearl. So choose the best place
> where you would shine.. "
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> --- On *Thu, 4/1/10, Susie Stephens <susie.stephens@gmail..com>* wrote:
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> From: Susie Stephens <susie.stephens@gmail.com>
> Subject: TMO Minutes
> To: "public-semweb-lifesci hcls" <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
> Date: Thursday, April 1, 2010, 1:21 PM
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> Minutes from today's Translational medicine Ontology call are now available
> http://esw.w3.org/HCLSIG/PharmaOntology/Meetings/2010-04-01_Conference_Call
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