Nicholas Edwards, Oxford AHSN: "I suggest they need to operate differently to reflect local priorities as well as trying different things but I think we would benefit by having some common standards around terminology and infrastructure".
SNOMED CT is a dynamic, scientifically validated clinical health care terminology and infrastructure [ 14] that is being increasingly adopted as the preferred terminology for the representation of clinical information.
In this scenario, the terminology content, technical infrastructure, and application development platforms are managed independently.
The Unified Medical Language System UMLSS) (Lindberg et al., 1993) is such a representative infrastructure which combines a comprehensive terminology (the Metathesaurus) and an ontology (the Semantic Network).
Develop a prototype of an interprofessional terminology and information model infrastructure that can enable care planning applications to facilitate patient-centered care, learn care plan linkages and associations, provide decision support, and enable automated, prospective analytics.
Next we offer definitions of, and alternative terminology for, the transportation infrastructure used by cyclists that might be expected to influence their safety (Table 1).
This study investigated the development of a community-focused curriculum integrating primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention and nursing standardized terminologies as an organizing infrastructure.
A coherent curriculum was designed using a community-focused approach; primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention strategies; and standardized terminologies as the organizing infrastructure to teach and apply nursing practice.
Well-defined vocabularies (terms, their associated definitions, and normative references) provide the foundation on which most standardization activities proceed – and ontologies that demand precise terminology are often important components of the digital infrastructure.
