Something new and different: The Unified Medical Language System

Q3 Social Sciences

Information Services and Use Pub Date : 2022-03-03 DOI:10.3233/ISU-210138

B. Humphreys, M. Tuttle

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Abstract

Donald A.B. Lindberg M.D. arrived at the U.S. National Library of Medicine in 1984 and quickly launched the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) research and development project to help computers understand biomedical meaning and to enable retrieval and integration of information from disparate electronic sources, e.g., patient records, biomedical literature, knowledge bases. This chapter focuses on how Lindberg’s thinking, preferred ways of working, and decision-making guided UMLS goals and development and on what made the UMLS markedly “new and different” and ahead of its time.

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新的和不同的东西:统一的医学语言系统

Donald A.B. Lindberg医学博士于1984年来到美国国家医学图书馆，并迅速启动了统一医学语言系统(UMLS)研究和开发项目，以帮助计算机理解生物医学的含义，并使检索和整合来自不同电子来源的信息成为可能，例如，患者记录，生物医学文献，知识库。本章重点介绍林德伯格的思想、首选的工作方式和决策是如何指导UMLS的目标和发展的，以及是什么使UMLS明显地“新颖而不同”，领先于时代。

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Information Services and Use Social Sciences-Library and Information Sciences

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