UMLS Purpose

• Make it easy for health professionals and researchers to retrieve and integrate relevant information from disparate automated sources, e.g.

  • computer-based patient records
  • factual databanks
  • bibliographic databases and full-text
  • expert systems

• Antedated and anticipated the Web

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Dr. Lindberg and Betsy Humphreys were prescient.....13 years ago a project at NLM was started to enable retrieval froma wide variety of disparate electronic sources.

UMLS Project antedated the web, in many respects anticipated it.