Terminological reaction.
David M. Baorto, Tru V Tran, Virginia Lorenzi, David Dong, Bulent Oral, Bruce Forman, Adam D. Cheriff, Curtis L. Cole · PubMed · 2008
When the terminology services at our institution encountered the installation of a new multi-site laboratory information system (LIS), we pursued obtaining a regular dictionary feed to keep the central terminology up-to-date. What we didn't predict was the value added to the LIS implementation effort by a cooperative vocabulary strategy. In this report, we describe how preexisting terminology services were leveraged to facilitate the integration of 2 previously independent laboratories into a new cross-campus LIS.