Background Frailty is considered an emerging syndrome characterized by a decrease in
physiological ability to respond to stressors, leading to increased morbidity and mortality …

Background Systematic study of clinical phenotypes is important for a better understanding
of the genetic basis of human diseases and more effective gene-based disease …

Objectives (a) To determine the extent and range of errors and issues in the Systematised
Nomenclature of Medicine–Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) hierarchies as they affect two …

Background There is an urgent need for epidemiological research in primary care to
develop risk assessment processes for patients presenting with COVID-19, but lack of a …

Introduction Medical documentation is a time-consuming task and there is a growing number
of documentation requirements. In order to improve documentation, harmonization and …

Large-scale mapping efforts have been done in attempts to migrate systems that use
proprietary concepts to ones that use terminological standards such as SNOMED CT. As …

Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) are the conditions in which people are born, live,
work, and age1. Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) incorporates SDOH concepts2; …

Abstract Knowledge-Intensive Case Based Reasoning (KI-CBR) systems mainly depend on
ontology. Using ontology as domain knowledge supports the implementation of semantically …

Medical forms are very heterogeneous: on a European scale there are thousands of data
items in several hundred different systems. To enable data exchange for clinical care and …

We present a new software tool called CDN (Collaborative Data Network) for sharing and
querying of clinical documents modeled using HL7 v3 standard (eg, Clinical Document …