A translation approach to portable ontology specifications
Knowledge Acquisition - Special issue: Current issues in knowledge modeling
A reference ontology for biomedical informatics: the foundational model of anatomy
Journal of Biomedical Informatics - Special issue: Unified medical language system
International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies
A formal theory for spatial representation and reasoning in biomedical ontologies
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
The exact security of digital signatures-how to sign with RSA and Rabin
EUROCRYPT'96 Proceedings of the 15th annual international conference on Theory and application of cryptographic techniques
Journal of Biomedical Informatics - Special issue: Biomedical ontologies
From concepts to clinical reality: an essay on the benchmarking of biomedical terminologies
Journal of Biomedical Informatics - Special issue: Biomedical ontologies
Journal of Biomedical Informatics - Special issue: Biomedical ontologies
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
Referent tracking for Digital Rights Management
International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies
Binding ontologies and coding systems to electronic health records and messages
Applied Ontology - Biomedical Ontology in Action
Introducing Realist Ontology for the Representation of Adverse Events
Proceedings of the 2008 conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference (FOIS 2008)
Managing Co-reference Knowledge for Data Integration
Proceedings of the 2009 conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases XX
Ontological realism: Methodology or misdirection?
Applied Ontology
Towards an ontological theory of substance intolerance and hypersensitivity
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
A SNOMED supported ontological vector model for subclinical disorder detection using EHR similarity
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Ontological realism: Methodology or misdirection?
Applied Ontology
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The goal of referent tracking is to create an ever-growing pool of data relating to the entities existing in concrete spatiotemporal reality. In the context of Electronic Healthcare Records (EHRs) the relevant concrete entities are not only particular patients but also their parts, diseases, therapies, lesions, and so forth, insofar as these are salient to diagnosis and treatment. Within a referent tracking system, all such entities are referred to directly and explicitly, something which cannot be achieved when familiar concept-based systems are used in what is called "clinical coding." In this paper, we describe the components of a referent tracking system in an informal way and we outline the procedures that would have to be followed by healthcare personnel in using such a system. We argue that the referent tracking paradigm can be introduced with only minor--though nevertheless ontologically important--technical changes to existing EHR infrastructures, but that it will require a radically different mindset on the part of those involved in clinical coding and terminology development from that which has prevailed hitherto.