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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 Lexikos Text-Understanding Products
Our framework offers to subscribing user groups a suite of web services to configure and download able to monitor data sources, learn from them, and report significant topics to selected users and/or other designated software.

The Agency inherits 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 potential users to keep up.  Agency lets them.

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 very similar ways.  Real patient data could trigger alerts of many kinds, including standards of care to consider, PubMed abstracts on relevant 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 almost any input of controlled medical vocabulary.

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 more general vocabulary, 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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