Every Medcin finding has its own unique, permanent non-contextual numeric identifier. Medcin findings are organized into a structured hierarchy using a separate field to indicate the hierarchical level of the finding.
Findings can inherit characteristics between levels in the hierarchy.
This is critical for building efficient narrative generation and decision support applications. The documentation includes samples of application code for illustrative purposes and instructions for building narrative and decision support algorithms using the information in the tables provided. The answer is yes. All tables necessary to develop applications based on Medcin are provided in Microsoft Access TM files. Medcin Nomenclature Medcin Search Medcin Chart Medcin Expert.