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MD9

Message Design group number 9 (MD9). The WE/EB message design group dedicated to the design of medical EDIFACT messages.

MeDDRA

Medical Dictionary for Drug Regulatory Affairs - A nomenclature/classification designed to support the reporting of medical information throughout the medical product regulatory cycle. Developed by the International Conference on Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Registration of Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH), Version 2.0 for 1998 release.

Medical Informatics

The term 'medical informatics' has been variously defined, but can be best understood as the understanding, skills and tools that enable the sharing and use of information to deliver healthcare and promote health.

Medical Logic Module

Medical Logic Module (MLM). The Arden Syntax is a syntax designed to facilitate the sharing of medical knowledge bases. In its present form the focus is on knowledge that can be represented as a set of independent modules that can provide therapeutic suggestions, alerts, diagnosis scores etc. Each module is called a Medical Logic Module (MLM), which is made up of slots grouped into maintenance, library and knowledge categories. [from Hripsack, et al, 1990]. The syntax has provisions for quering a clinical database and representing time. The syntax is based largely on HELP and the Regenstrief Medical Record System. The Arden Syntax is named after the Arden Homestead in Harriman New York State, where a meeting was held to address the sharing of medical knowledge.

MEDIX

MED IX is an intended standard which is being developed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Standards Committee on Medical Data Interchange also known as 'MEDIX'. MEDIX is a comprehensive specification for a health data exchange standard. According to the Institute of Medicine (1991) it is the only standard for which its developers have stated an objective of eventually supporting the transfer of the entire patient record (MEDIX is also the only health care data standard that has declared an intention to support the International Standards Organization (ISO) Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) model).

MEDLARS

The National Library of Medicine, Medical Literature and Retrieval System which includes specialized databases in health administration, toxicology, cancer, medical ethics and population studies.

MEDLINE

MEDLINE is an on-line bibiographic database of medical information. MEDLINE now indexes about 350,000 new articles each year from those published in the biomedical literature. MEDLINE covers 25 years and includes citations to more than 6 milion articles from about 3500 journals.

Message Design group number 9

Message Design group number 9 (MD9). The WE/EB message design group dedicated to the design of medical EDIFACT messages.

Minimum basic data set

Minimum basic data set (MBDS) - Set of data that is the minimum required for a health care record to conform to a given standard.

MIPS

Medical Image Procuring Standards. Japanese version of the ACR/NEMA standard

MLM

An MLM is a hybrid between a production rule (i.e. an "if-then" rule) and a procedural formalism. Each MLM is invoked as if it were a single-step "if-then" rule, but then it executes serially as a sequence of instructions, including queries, calculations, logic statements and write statements.

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