A cross-referenced index of human diseases, diagnoses, medications, symptoms, signs and
investigations. The web site also provides links to topic specific web pages and a
portal to conventional search engines and Medical Databases.
The Diseases Database
has been live on the web since August 2000, see also Diseases Database reviews, usage figures etc.
Features include:
A normalized data structure for encoding medical
knowledge in computer systems
Context specific storage of hyperlinks to information sources
Fast 'smart' medical terms search facilities
Applications include:
A electronic textbook index and learning aid
A clinical concept based indexing system for electronic documents
A clinician friendly entry point for high level clinical
coding. Translation into controlled vocabularies is provided via concept mapping using the Unified Medical Language System ®
(UMLS).
An easily maintained knowledge base for clinical decision support software
Concepts from the Diseases Database are included in the latest version of the
US National Library of Medicine's Unified Medical Language System ®
