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Toward Terminology as Infrastructure

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Cancer Informatics

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In the near future, high-level meetings at cancer care and research enterprises may be distracted by discussions of the terminology computers use to support collaborative interactions. Because the productivity of these enterprises will depend on comprehensive and timely terminology, discussions of terminology shortfalls may dominate management discussions until they are overcome and creating and maintaining quality terminology become part of the enterprise infrastructure. Because cancer research and care is necessarily broadly collaborative, this may happen to cancer enterprises before it happens to most other biomedical and healthcare enterprises.

Partially supported by contracts funded by the National Cancer Institute Office of Bioinformatics, and National Library of Medicine Contract #LM-9-3519-“Research Support Services for the UMLS Metathesaurus.”

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  1. Mark S. Tuttle
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Center for Bioinformatics National Cancer Institute, Eldersburg, MD, 21784, USA

    John S. Silva MD

  2. Clinical Solutions Healthlink, Inc., Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD, 21210, USA

    Marion J. Ball EdD (Vice President, Adjunct Professor) (Vice President, Adjunct Professor)

  3. Section of Medical Information Resources, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA

    Christopher G. Chute MD, DrPH (Professor of Medical Informatics, Head) (Professor of Medical Informatics, Head)

  4. Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, Reisterstown, MD, 21136, USA

    Judith V. Douglas MA, MHS (Adjunct Faculty, Formerly Associate) (Adjunct Faculty, Formerly Associate)

  5. Faculty of Medicine, First Consulting Group, Baltimore, MD, 21210, USA

    Judith V. Douglas MA, MHS (Adjunct Faculty, Formerly Associate) (Adjunct Faculty, Formerly Associate)

  6. University of Pennsylvania, Moorestown, NJ, 08057, USA

    Curtis P. Langlotz MD, PhD (Assistant Professor of Radiology, Epidemiology, and Computer and Information Science) (Assistant Professor of Radiology, Epidemiology, and Computer and Information Science)

  7. Division of Information Sciences, Department of Biostatistics City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA, 91010, USA

    Joyce C. Niland PhD (Chair, Director) (Chair, Director)

  8. Principal Research Scientist School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA

    William L. Scherlis PhD

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Tuttle, M.S., Campbell, K.E., Keck, K.D., Carter, J.S. (2002). Toward Terminology as Infrastructure. In: Silva, J.S., et al. Cancer Informatics. Health Informatics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0063-2_11

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