What is the Agency Framework?
Semantic modeling and analysis techniques offer power tools for
knowledge management that provide SIGs, small businesses, enterprise
departments or distributed groups advanced new ways to manage evolving
information:
- Agency treats data
changes as NEWS which may
trigger ALERTS
- Its semantic indices find related topics via contextual
word meanings
- Ranked MATCHES of
texts in any corpora have many applications
- Such powers are central to our new Clinical Text Analysis Products
Our framework offers tools to subscribing user groups - a suite of web utilities to configure and download, which can monitor data sources, learn from them, and report changes in topics of interest to selected users or designated software.
The Agency inherits substantial expertise from its UMLS
domain vocabulary, so its initial corpora and applications will
especially focus on Life Science topics.
1. PubMed Abstracts in an Area of
Interest
Our software can track
abstracts on almost any interesting mix of topics that NCBI
can supply with its normal query services. PubMed holds millions,
and it grows too fast for most users to keep up. Agency
makes that far simpler.
It semantically analyzes each new abstract more deeply, typically
overnight, matches it to similar abstracts in the local corpus, and
alerts users under rules they can improve as their own experience grows
along with their corpus. Overall, Agency users learn more in
less time by "contextually" tracking PubMed.
2. Clinical Situations in an Area
of Practice
Electronic models of patient visits or clinical histories, actual or
prototypical, can be analyzed, tracked and managed in similar
ways. Free text EMR notes about patients can trigger alerts of many kinds, including standards of
care to consider, PubMed abstracts on relevant new research,
or matching clinical trials.
Health Care gets more perceptive
when clinical-situation events
trigger treatment hints or warnings; start up work flow on decision
support or billing tools; help research prior outcomes;
etc. Agency APIs let
helpful alerts specific to each user be triggered by any input of medical vocabulary of interest to users.
3. Vocabulary Models that Integrate
Systems
Interoperation of medical software systems is today often impeded by
their use of competing internal concepts. By registering their
definitions under the Agency's patented
upper ontology, developers may quickly find the translations that
help circumvent the barrier, or even create real-time, auto-aligning
APIs.
Clinical data systems can enable such interfaces if relevant usage
specs on their access get indexed in Agency,
then queried using caller specs on needed data This
approach, for example, could potentially let many new decision support
systems use many disparate clinical data sources. A major
practical benefit of it is that better integration
takes only better specs, not costly recoding efforts.
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