Actually, a major component of VistA found its way to become the basis of the NDF-RT
(National Drug Formulary, Reference Terminology) which is now a full-rank
source in the UMLS. Sadly, the version there is somewhat out of
date. I attach a manuscript I wrote with Steve Brown from the VA, and
others, which expands that source for pharmacogenomics use. While the
title emphasizes the pharmacokinetics issues, it also includes a reasonable
description of the NDF-RT.
Chris
From:
health-ont-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:health-ont-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Mark Roest
Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2005
2:51 AM
To: health-ont@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [health-ont] Existing
ontology
Has the
group considered the very large medical care ontology embodied in VistA, the VA hospital information management system with
hundreds of vertical applications? WorldVistA.org is taking it open source and
free, very actively now. If your work can be tailored to augment their work, in
collaboration with them, it might strengthen the most important medical
informatics system in existence.
[I do not
know enough about the technical aspects of your work, or of VistA,
to know if it is a fit, and I am not a programmer. But if it would help prepare
OpenVistA for being extended into health care knowledgebases, perhaps your
involvement would be welcomed.]
VistA has
resulted in an 85% reduction in wrong drug administration and top rankings on
Quality of Care indices among large hospital systems in the United States.
It's defining characteristic is its design for participation by the users in
its development and maintenance.
Regards,
Mark
Roest
Mark
Roest
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