Re: [Openmed-announce] Re: New LQS implementation!

[David F. <dw...@la...>]

Sorry for the cryptic statement.   There are 4 specifications from the OMG =
HDTF.  One is the Lexicon Query Service (LQS) sometimes know as the Termino=
logy Query Service (or TQS).  It basically is a dictionary/thesaurus interf=
ace to clinical terminology.  One way to view it is as an OMG interface to =
UMLS.   There is already an open source LQS coming out of Mayo by Harold So=
lbrig, that probably is a lot more complete than this one.  Mayo (Harold) i=
s also writing a Clinical Terminology Service (or CTS) that implements many=
 of the terminology ideas coming out of HL7.  You should know that Harold S=
olbrig was the primary author of the LQS service in the OMG while he was at=
 3M.


Dave

> ------------Original Message------------
> From: Tim Churches <tc...@op...>
> To: David Forslund <dw...@la...>
> Cc: ope...@li..., ope...@li...=
eforge.net, "openhealth-list @ minoru-development . com" <openhealth-list@m=
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> Date: Wed, Apr-14-2004 4:02 PM
> Subject: [Openmed-announce] Re: New LQS implementation!
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> On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 01:13, David Forslund wrote:
> > I would like thank J. Knoops and Gerrit Boers of the Univ. of Maastrich=
t for their recent contribution to OpenEMed!
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> > They have graciously contributed an updated and more complete LQS imple=
mentation to OpenEMed
> > It is in the CVS repository but not (yet) available as a separate downl=
oad. =

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> Please forgive my ignorance, but what is an LQS?
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