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Something New and Different: The Unified Medical Language System
Betsy L. Humphreys, Mark S. Tuttle
100 - 112
10.3233/SHTI210985
Research Article
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Volume 288: Transforming Biomedical Informatics and Health Information Access: Don Lindberg and the U.S. National Library of Medicine
Abstract

Donald A.B. Lindberg M.D. arrived at the U.S. National Library of Medicine in 1984 and quickly launched the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) research and development project to help computer understand biomedical meaning and to enable retrieval and integration of information from disparate electronic sources, e.g., patient records, biomedical literature, knowledge bases. This chapter focuses on how Lindberg’s thinking, preferred ways of working, and decision-making guided UMLS goals and development and on what made the UMLS markedly “new and different” and ahead of its time.

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