Caregivers want to express diseases, symptoms, and treatments in terms that are easy to recall, but healthcare enterprises need authoritative coding of these concepts in their medical records.
Formalization Translates casual input to the enterprise-preferred name.
Often, the term that first comes to mind is not the one that best fits the clinical situation. Synonyms alone are not enough. People don't get Mad Cow Disease, they get a related disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. The Metaphrase Guide helps clinicians locate the concept with the best fit. Performance Gives your enterprise applications high-volume transaction access to Metaphrase Thesaurus information.