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Methods Inf Med 1995; 34(01/02): 214-231
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1634582
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Navigating to Knowledge

M. S. Tuttle
1   Lexical Technology, Inc., Alameda, CA, USA
,
W. G. Cole
2   University of Washington, Seattle, W A, USA
,
D. D. Sherertz
1   Lexical Technology, Inc., Alameda, CA, USA
,
S. J. Nelson
3   Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA, USA
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09 February 2018 (online)

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Abstract:

One way to fulfill point-of-care knowledge needs is to present caregivers with a visual representation of the available “answers”. Using such a representation, caregivers can recognize what they want, rather than have to recall what they need, and then navigate to an appropriate answer. Given selected pieces of information from a computer-based patient record, an interface can anticipate certain knowledge needs by initializing caregiver navigation in a semantic neighborhood of answers likely to be relevant to the patient at hand. These notions draw heavily on two collaborative projects – the U.S. National Library of Medicine Unified Medical Language System® and the U.S. National Cancer Institute Knowledge Server. Both of these projects support navigation because they make the structure of medical knowledge explicit in a way that can be exploited by human interfaces.

Keywords:

Navigation - Knowledge - Semantic Visualization - Point of Care - Computer-based Patient Record
 

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