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Using a terminology server and consumer search phrases to help patients find physicians with particular expertise
Curtis L Cole1, Andrew S Kanter, Michael Cummens
1Weill Medical College of Cornell University, 1300 York Avenue A123, New York, NY 10021, USA.
Objectives:
To design and implement a real world application using a terminology server to assist patients and physicians who use common language search terms to find specialist physicians with a particular clinical expertise.
Method:
Terminology servers have been developed to help users encoding of information using complicated structured vocabulary during data entry tasks, such as recording clinical information. We describe a methodology using Personal Health Terminology trade mark and a SNOMED CT-based hierarchical concept server.
Results:
Construction of a pilot mediated-search engine to assist users who use vernacular speech in querying data which is more technical than vernacular.
Conclusion:
This approach, which combines theoretical and practical requirements, provides a useful example of concept-based searching for physician referrals.
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