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Medical Informatics Europe 1991 pp 19–27Cite as

Medical Languages: Use, Definition and Processing in Ward Information Systems (WIS)

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It is quite commonplace to observe nowadays how medical records are reduced to a huge mass of poorly structured information, that is to say a mixture of texts, images and numbers. Within medical institutions, particularly hospitals, the situation becomes worse when there is the least attempt to retrieve specific, relevant information, let us say, first patient-to-patient and then by medical entities or on an institutional statistical basis. It is not always a surprise why the bibliographical research is so paramount, since it is generally accepted that the easiest accessible relevant information is from medical literature thanks to powerful tools like MEDLINE, Excerpta Medica or Pergamon.

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  1. Hospital Information Center, Cantonal University Hospital of Geneva, CH-1211, Geneva 4, Switzerland

    J.-R. Scherrer

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  1. Department of Medical Computer Sciences, University of Vienna, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, 1090, Wien, Austria

    Klaus-Peter Adlassnig  & Georg Grabner  & 

  2. Department of Clinical Microbiology, Akademiska Hospital, P. O. Box 552, 751 85, Uppsala, Sweden

    Stellan Bengtsson

  3. National Institute of Public Health, Geitmyrsveien 75, 0462, Oslo, Norway

    Rolf Hansen

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Scherrer, JR. (1991). Medical Languages: Use, Definition and Processing in Ward Information Systems (WIS). In: Adlassnig, KP., Grabner, G., Bengtsson, S., Hansen, R. (eds) Medical Informatics Europe 1991. Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics, vol 45. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93503-9_3

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