Simulating an Automated System (SAS) for Merging Medical Vocabularies

Controlled medical vocabularies are important constructs employed to regulate information for the intention of forming, storing, communicating, searching, and analyzing medical data electronically. Designers of medical informatics applications need controlled medical vocabularies to support their applications. In this paper, we propose simulating an automated system (SAS) which consists of a source dictionary, a destination dictionary, and a keyword comparison method. Our preliminary work uses MEDLINE and MEDICINENET as two vocabularies and simple comparison and Levenstein Distance as two keyword comparison methods.