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Yearb Med Inform 2008; 17(01): 80-82
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1638586
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Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart

Decision Support, Knowledge Representation and Management: Structuring Knowledge for Better Access

Findings from the Yearbook 2008 Section on Decision Support, Knowledge Representation and Management
A.-M. Rassinoux
1   University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Managing Editor for the IMIA Yearbook Section on Decision Support, Knowledge Representation and Management › Author Affiliations
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Correspondence to

Anne-Marie Rassinoux, Ph. D.
University Hospitals of Geneva Service of Medical Informatics Unit of Clinical Informatics 24, rue Michelidu-Crest
CH-1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland
Phone: +41 22 372 6293   
Fax: +41 22 372 8680   

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Publication Date:
07 March 2018 (online)

 
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Summary

Objectives To summarize current outstanding research in the field of decision support, knowledge representation and management.

Method Synopsis of the articles selected for the IMIA Yearbook 2008.

Results Five papers from international peer reviewed journals have been selected for the section on decision support, knowledge representation and management. They address a wide range of topics such as the recognition and extraction of negation or time from clinical narratives, the use of ontological elements to reduce the complexity of natural language processing applications or to strengthen the precision of document retrieval as well as the benefits of integrating clinical decision support within computer provider orderentry.

Conclusions The best paper selection brings to light that whatever the methodological approach used in decision support, knowledge representation and management, all applications benefit from manipulating information that is expressed in both a meaningful and structured way. In order to combine the flexibility and expressive power of natural language with the computational tractability of structured data, the electronic health record based on structured narrative offers new perspectives.


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Keywords

Natural language processing - knowledge representation - ontologies - information retrieval - reasoning

 


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Correspondence to

Anne-Marie Rassinoux, Ph. D.
University Hospitals of Geneva Service of Medical Informatics Unit of Clinical Informatics 24, rue Michelidu-Crest
CH-1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland
Phone: +41 22 372 6293   
Fax: +41 22 372 8680   

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    PubMedGoogle Scholar
  • 5 Los RK, van Ginneken AM, de Wilde M, van der Lei J. OpenSDE: Row modeling applied to generic structured data entry. JAm Med InformAssoc 2004; 11 (02) 162-5.
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  • 7 Chen L, Friedman C. Extracting phenotypic information from the literature via natural language processing. Medinfo 2004; 11 Pt2 758-62.
    PubMedGoogle Scholar
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    PubMedGoogle Scholar
  • 9 Hung PW, Johnson SB, Kaufman DR, Mendonça EA. A multi-level model of information seeking in the clinical domain. J Biomed Inform 2008; 41: 357-70.
    CrossrefPubMedGoogle Scholar
  • 10 Augusto JC. Temporal reasoning for decision support in medicine. Artif Intell Med 2005; 33 (01) 1-24.
    CrossrefPubMedGoogle Scholar
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    CrossrefPubMedGoogle Scholar
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    PubMedGoogle Scholar
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    CrossrefPubMedGoogle Scholar
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    CrossrefPubMedGoogle Scholar

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