Visual coder: clinical coding in translational research

As the fields of translational research and personalized medicine evolve, the need clinicians and scientists have to exchange experimental results is growing. As different terminologies are used to describe research results in different fields, a tool which could provide assistance in the automated integration of scientific and medical experimental results would be facilitated by semantic tagging using terminology sourced from a domain spanning thesaurus[5]. We present Visual Coder, a visualization tool for performing clinical coding of anatomic pathology structured reports (APSR) for the purpose of multidisciplinary knowledge exchange. The tool provides a visualization of a translational research terminology server and a graphical user interface which provides a set of visual tools to facilitate clinical coding. Categories and Subject Descriptors D.2.12 [Software Engineering]: Interoperability General Terms Documentation, Design, Standardization Keywords Clinical Coding, Semantic Ann...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: IHI
• Authors: Fieran Mason-Blakley, Jens Janke-Weber, Melanie Tory, Cliff McCollum
• Keywords: Clinical Coding, Healthcare, IHI 2010, Tools, Translational Research