Our health language and data collections
Hovenga, E.J.S.; Grain, H.
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 193: 93-107
2013
ISSN/ISBN: 1879-8365 PMID: 24018512 Document Number: 666021
All communication within the health industry is dependent upon the use of our health language consisting of a very extensive and complex vocabulary. Converting this language into computable formats is necessary in a digital environment with a strong reliance on data, information and knowledge sharing. This chapter describes our health language, what terminologies and ontologies are, their use and relationships with natural language, indexing, data standards, data collections and the need for data governance.