Dear List, below is a text describing a project I intend offering to my students for the coming semester. I would be grateful if you could make any additions or comments to enhance the specification. Acknowledgements to Tim Churches for his contribution to the text. thanks Jon
Web Interface for Maintaining Medical Ontology, SNOMED CT Introduction With the adoption of the ontology SNOMED CT (SCT) by the Australian Government for reporting clinical content a brand new sub-market in SNOMED-CT-related health IT software has opened up overnight in Australia. The aim of this project is to provide an open source system to support its adoption. Aim To build a Web-based SNOMED-CT browser/search facility, perhaps using some nifty Web 2.0/AJAX methods to provide good interactivity. At the moment, most SNOMED-CT browsing is done using a free (but not open source) Visual Basic GUI application called CLUE (see http://www.clininfo.co.uk/clue5/index.htm ). A SNOMED-CT look-up facility as a Web service licensed under an open source license which permitted integration with both open source and closed source clinical applications (i.e. Mozilla, BSD licenced) is needed. The system should also provide for a number of other functions needed to maintain it and support particular users, such as: Specialist subsetting Subsumption testing over all transitive relationships Inheritance mapping Hierarchy visualisation Minimum Network presentation Integration with the current Text-to-SCT processing system Comparison to other Systems The problem with the CLUE browser, apart from its general clunkiness and not terribly smart look-up facilities, is that it needs to be installed, along with the SCT data files, everywhere you need to use it. Another product MyCroft that maintains SNOMED CT is produced by Apelon TermWorks and may give further ideas on utilities see http://www.apelon.com/ . ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
