Unified Medical Language System® (UMLS®)
Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center Medical Entities Dictionary Source Information
Web site
http://med.dmi.columbia.edu/
Authority
Medical Entities Dictionary (MED) was developed and is
maintained by the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and
Columbia University.
Purpose
MED serves as a set of standard terms to represent and capture
clinical data in electronic health records (EHR) systems.
Description
MED is organized as a polyhierarchical semantic network of
medical entities. It contains over 100,000 terms from a variety
of sources, including the UMLS Metathesaurus, ICD-9-CM, and
LOINC.
Metathesaurus Scope
The Metathesaurus representation of MED includes only 3,000
MED terms. These terms are arranged polyhierarchically into seven
groupings. The seven entity groupings are
- Anatomic Structure
- Conceptual Entity
- Etiologic Agent
- Event
- Measureable Entity
- Physical Object
- Sampleable Entity
Audience
MED is used by clinicians, nurses, and other health
professionals.
Metathesaurus Update Frequency
MED was last updated in the Metathesaurus in 2003.
Sites Consulted
- Medical Entities Dictionary [Internet]. New York: Columbia University; [cited 2010 Feb 25]. Available from: http://med.dmi.columbia.edu/.