NIH | National Cancer Institute | NCI Wiki  

Error rendering macro 'rw-search'

null

Versions Compared

Key

  • This line was added.
  • This line was removed.
  • Formatting was changed.
Scrollbar

Page info
title
title

Terminology use cases

The National Cancer Institute has long been a leader in terminology related services and has provided the cancer community with structured terminology through the NCI enterprise vocabulary services for several years. There are now a much wider range of terminology use cases to meet the needs from bedside to bench and back and the semantic infrastructure version 2 is being designed to meet all of these use cases. The use cases require thinking beyond the capabilities of the existing metadata repository as demonstrated in caDSR and to support semantic representations of concepts as they are used in clinical information exchange using the HL7 structure document's. It is also recognized that there are needs to bind concepts to information models in the abstract as domain values for use in models such as the BRIDG domain analysis model or the life sciences DAM.

...