A model of clinical query management that supports integration of biomedical information over the World Wide Web

Proc Annu Symp Comput Appl Med Care. 1995:898-902.

Abstract

A model of clinical query management is described that supports the integration of various types of biomedical information and the delivery of that information through a common interface. The model extends the architecture of the World Wide Web to include a Common Gateway Interface (CGI) mediator, which takes in user queries, performs syntactic and semantic processing to transform the input to a canonical form, selects the appropriate information sources to answer the query, translates the canonical query statement into a query of each information resource, queries the chosen information sources in parallel, and controls the analysis and display of results. We describe WebMedline, a CGI mediator that implements portions of this model, and discuss the benefits and limitations of this approach.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Computer Communication Networks*
  • Computer Systems
  • Information Services
  • Information Storage and Retrieval*
  • MEDLINE
  • Models, Theoretical
  • Systems Integration
  • User-Computer Interface*