Semantic Reconciliation of Standard and Localized Medical Terminologies for Knowledge Interoperability

The heterogeneous localized concepts of various hospitals reduce interoperability among localized data models of Hospital Information Systems (HIS) and the knowledge bases of clinical decision support systems (CDSS). The leading solution to overcome the interoperability barrier is the reconciliation of standard medical terminologies with localized data models. In this paper, we extend the semantic reconciliation model (SRM) to provide mappings among diverse concepts of localized domain clinical models (DCM) and concepts of standard medical terminologies such as Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine - Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT). In the extended SRM, we insert the explicit semantics only into the word vector of the localized DCM concepts instead of the implicit semantics, which enhances the system's accuracy with a lower computational cost. The extended SRM performed well on the datasets of localized DCM and SNOMED CT with a precision of 0.95, a recall of 0.92, and an F-measure of 0.93.