Consumer Health Informatics is the research speciality of one of our faculty here at UW-Madison SLIS - Catherine Arnott Smith
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> On Mar 14, 2016, at 1:49 PM, [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Jacob,
> 
> You could try browsing Linked Open Vocabularies:
> http://lov.okfn.org/dataset/lov/vocabs?&tag=Health
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 2:43 PM, Jacob Ratliff <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
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>> MeSH is a little helpful, but it is slightly different than the realm of
>> public health, which spends a lot of time on the systems surrounding
>> health, as well as the health areas themselves. (e.g. Pharmacy supply chain
>> management). That's the direction I'm heading though!
>> 
>> Jacob
>> 
>> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 2:35 PM, Carol Bean <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>> MeSH?
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
>>>> On Mar 14, 2016, at 1:22 PM, Jacob Ratliff <[log in to unmask]>
>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> 
>>>> I currently work in an International public health non-profit, and we
>>> are setting up enterprise wide document management for dealing with
>>> Knowledge Management and Information Management issues. Lots of moving
>>> pieces, but I wanted to get some input on metadata specific to the
>>> medical/health world. I am looking for some metadata guidance
>> specifically
>>> related to the medical/health world. Is anyone using any standard
>>> controlled vocabularies? Should I be looking into Linked Data? I'm
>> starting
>>> off the research phase for all of the metadata, so links to resources and
>>> case studies is greatly helpful!
>>>> 
>>>> Bonus points to anything that is international in scope, as over 75% of
>>> the employees at my company are non-US based (most of them in Africa).
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>> Jacob Ratliff
>>>> Information Architect / UX Specialsit
>>>> Management Sciences for Health
>>>> [log in to unmask]
>>> 
>> 
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