Terminology, Ontology and their Implementations / edited by Peter L. Elkin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Elkin, Peter L., editor.

Series:

Health Informatics, 2197-3741

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical informatics.

Bioinformatics.

Health Informatics.

Local Subjects:

Health Informatics.

Bioinformatics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (582 pages)

Edition:

2nd ed. 2023.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2023.

Summary:

This revised new edition containing numerous new and heavily updated chapters provides readers with the essential information needed to understand the central topics of terminology in healthcare, the understanding of which is an asset to be leveraged in care and research. Twenty-five years ago the notion that terminology should be concept-based was all but unknown in healthcare; now almost all important terminologies are at least partly concept-based. With no general model of what a terminology was or should be, there were no tools to support terminology development and maintenance. Steady progress since then has improved both terminology content and the technology and processes used to sustain that content. This new edition uses real world examples from the health sector to delineate the principal issues and solutions for the field of data representation. It includes a history of terminologies and in particular their use in healthcare, including inter-enterprise clinicaland research data aggregation. Terminology, Ontology and their Implementations covers the basis, authoring and use of ontologies and reference terminologies including the formalisms needed to use them safely. The editor and his team of carefully chosen contributors exhaustively reviews the field of concept-based indexing and provides readers with an understanding of natural language processing and its application to health terminologies. The book discusses terminology services and the architecture for terminological servers and consequently serves as the basis for study for all students of health informatics.

Contents:

Section 1: Introduction to Core Concepts

Introduction

History of Terminology and Ontology

Knowledge Representation and the Logical Basis of Ontology

Theoretical Foundations of Terminology

Terminology Requirements and Standards Development

Terminology Design

Maintenance

Quality Control

Section 2: Realist Ontology

Realism Based Ontology

What is an ontology?

Ontology vs. terminology

Ontology vs. taxonomy

Ontologies and databases

Ontology and the Semantic Web

Ontology in biomedical informatics

Bad ontologies

The concept orientation

Why ontologies so often fail

Recipes for success

Examples of successful ontologies and of how they are being used

The place of Referent Tracking in Biomedical Informatics

Introduction: what is Referent Tracking (RT)? How does it relate to ontology? What does it aim to achieve? Why does it matter?

Basic principles: how RT is build on top of three important distinctions made in realism-basedontology: particulars types, continuants occurrents, referents references

Syntax and semantics of RT-expressions

RT as a development tool for ontologies

Using RT to detect and prevent flaws in scientific research and ambiguities and inconsistencies in reports and papers

RT as a solution for semantic interoperability

Werner Ceusters

Bioontology in Service of Translational Science

Introduction to Bioontologies and the OBO Foundry

The Gene Ontology

Overview of GO Content and Structure

GO annotation

Term Enrichment/Pathway Analysis

Success Stories

Challenges

Bioontologies and Data Annotation Systems

ImmPort/HIPC

Kidney Precision Medicine Project

GEO and Array Express

Disease and Phenotype Annotation for Translational Studies

Use of Ontologies at Mouse Genome Informatics

HPO and the Monarch Project

Compositionality: An Implementation Guide

Section 3: Terminologies and their Implementation

Interface Terminologies

SNOMED CT

RxNorm andNDF-RT and ATC codes

LOINC

SOLOR

ICD

CPT

HCC Codes / Risk Adjustment and MACRA / MIPS

DRGs

NCI EVS

Nursing Terminologies

RED / MED

UMLS Metathesauras and knowledge sources

Section 4: Terminology Services, APIs and Methods

Terminological Systems

HL7 FHIR and APIs

Section 5: Summing it All Up

Lessons Learned and Suggested Research Agenda

The future of coding and coding systems

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Elkin, Peter L. Terminology, Ontology and Their Implementations

ISBN:

3-031-11039-0