Unified Medical Language System

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A proposal for incorporating health level seven (HL7) vocabulary in the UMLS Metathesaurus. 
  • Annotating the human genome with Disease Ontology. 
  • Design, implementation, use, and preliminary evaluation of an UMLS-enabled terminology Web service for clinical decision support. 
  • Evaluation of a chief complaint pre-processor for biosurveillance. 
  • Evaluation of emergency medical text processor, a system for cleaning chief complaint text data. 
  • Mining biomedical data using MetaMap Transfer (MMtx) and the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS). 
  • Using nurses' natural language entries to build a concept-oriented terminology for patients' chief complaints in the emergency department.