Rubrics to dissections to GRAIL to classifications.

This paper summarises the process in the GALEN-IN-USE project by which rubrics from traditional medical coding schemes are analysed into an intermediate, relatively informal conceptual representation which is then automatically translated into the GRAIL formalism and its Common Reference Model.

Mapping the GALEN CORE model to SNOMED-III: initial experiments.

As an experiment, a physician without prior training developed a model of two contiguous segments of the SNOMED disease chapter along with related sections from the Topography, Function and Morphology chapters. Effort required, coverage, reasons for difficulties and added value to SNOMED are examined.