A framework for evaluating and utilizing medical terminology mappings
Hussain, S.; Sun, H.; Sinaci, A.; Erturkmen, G.B.L.; Mead, C.; Gray, A.J.G.; McGuinness, D.L.; Prud'Hommeaux, E.; Daniel, C.; Forsberg, K.
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 205: 594-598
2014
ISSN/ISBN: 1879-8365 PMID: 25160255 Document Number: 672404
Use of medical terminologies and mappings across them are considered to be crucial pre-requisites for achieving interoperable eHealth applications. Built upon the outcomes of several research projects, we introduce a framework for evaluating and utilizing terminology mappings that offers a platform for i) performing various mappings strategies, ii) representing terminology mappings together with their provenance information, and iii) enabling terminology reasoning for inferring both new and erroneous mappings. We present the results of the introduced framework from SALUS project where we evaluated the quality of both existing and inferred terminology mappings among standard terminologies.