Informatics-Review > Medical Language System Resources and Applications

Medical Language System Resources and Applications

• EURO-MED-DATA -- Some classifications, nomenclatures, terminologies and coding systems in use in medical computerised registration systems with corresponding links.
  
• Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Fact Sheet -- U.S. National Library of Medicine
• UMLS Knowledge Source Server Fact Sheet -- U.S. National Library of Medicine
• UMLS Resources -- U.S. National Library of Medicine (free registration required)
• Internet Grateful Med V2.6.3 -- U.S. National Library of Medicine
• MeSH Browser -- U.S. National Library of Medicine
• MeSH Browser -- National Center Biotechnology Information
• ChemIDplus -- Chemical Search Input Page
• Web Medline -- Bill Detmer
• Diseases Database -- Medical Object Oriented Software Technology Ltd
• CliniWeb International -- Bill Hersh at Oregon Health Sciences University
• Medical World Search -- Medical World Search
• Health Search -- Intelligent Medical Objects, Inc
• Medical Informatics MeSH browser -- (Note: Must use I.E. 5+) Manish Parekhji at Oregon Health Science University looking for someone interested in completing the project...
• MPIP Glossifier -- Melanoma Patients' Information Page (MPIP)
• Concierge -- National Cancer Institute
• The GALEN Common Reference Model -- 
• jTerm Demonstration -- Mike Hogarth, M.D.
• The Protégé Project -- Stanford Medical Informatics Faculty and Students
• Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC) data base -- Regenstrief Institute
• Clinical Classifications Software (CCS) -- Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (now the AHRQ)
• WordNet - a Lexical Database for English -- Princeton University Cognitive Science Laboratory

Commercially available products

• Apelon - maker of Metaphrase and government contractor for the UMLS project.
• Health Language - a Cyber+Plus company
• Medicomp -- produces Medcin, a clinical nomenclature and Chart BuilderTM
• Language & Computing -- delivers natural language understanding applications as middleware components for healthcare informatics systems
• Links to other commercially available vocabulary resources

Listservs

• UMLS Users Listserv
  SUBSCRIBING can be done via e-mail or the web (http://umlsinfo.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/lyris.pl)
  Send a messages to listserv@nlm.nih.gov
  In the body of the message include:
  subscribe umls-users <Your Full Name>

To suggest another resource for inclusion on this page -- UMLS@informatics-review.com

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Informatics-Review > Medical Language System Resources and Applications

1 Dec 2000