The Place of Referent Tracking in Biomedical Informatics

Terminological systems, including coding and classification are used in electronic medical record systems to facilitate the interpretation of structured data by providing terms codes with a relatively precise meaning. When clinician selects term or code from such system enters it patient, then, an ontological perspective as consequence how terminological currently integrated assertion has been made effect that patient exhibits, exhibited, some phenomenon type T. It is however left unspecified which particular designated In other words: records contain explicit references, i.e., codes, but referents these references not explicitly identified! Because can be referenced many different ways, types about referents, may change so they become type, analytics application rely on only prone drawing erroneous conclusions. Referent Tracking methodology for management allows assertions reference about. This chapter offers introduction principles upon rests applied improve quality problem list records.