Sustainability Scholarships for UK/EU students: award up to £8,000.
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The Vice-Chancellor’s Academic Excellence Undergraduate Scholarships is available to international students coming to study at the University of Western Sydney in Australia. The core mandatory requirements for the Vice-Chancellor’s Academic Excellence Undergraduate Scholarships include the […]
University of Western Sydney, Graduate Research School
There are a number of Clinical Classification & Coding and Terminology systems that are developed as international standards and adopted by various countries including Australia.
These include (but not limited to):
These classification and terminology systems are developed independently to each other and expected to work in harmony within clinical software. However due to lack of harmonisation between these clinical terminology and classification systems, there is much human involvement required in translating from one to another. Such human involvement creates inconsistencies and errors in coding.
With wider usage of software for management of health data, there is an urgent need for having computer-assisted harmonisation between these classification and terminology systems. Further these are evolving ontologies. Therefore, there is a greater need for keeping the ontological continuity as the core classification or terminological systems evolve.
This research is focused on involving machine learning techniques for the purpose extracting relevant ICD, ICHI and ICF codes, based on SNOMED-CT terms found in free text data that relates to a particular episode of care. Also other information such as
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