Saulo Bortolon, Dept. Informatics, UFES, Vitoria, Brazil Roberta Gomes, Dept. Informatics, UFES, Brazil Mariella Berger Hilario Seibel Jr.*, CEFETES, Serra, ES. Track: General Track Presentation Topic: Wikis Presentation Type: Oral presentation Submission Type: Single Presentation Building: MaRS Centre Room: CR2 Date: 2008-09-04 03:30 PM – 05:00 PM Last modified: 2008-08-27

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We report ongoing research on terminology and Open source software in Healthcare. We describe a collaborative environment for translating SNOMED-CT to portuguese. MediaWiki was used as the first implementation, but alternatives are being analyzed. Discussions about the pros and cons of adopting this solution in a nationwide effort to adopt international standardized nomenclatures are presented. We discuss the importance of Terminologies for interoperability and its relations to Classifications, Ontologies and Archetypes.
The collaboration process needs a hierarchical structure, not the usual, democratic wikipedia approach. An account manager has to allow incoming translators to enter one or more medical subareas. Each subarea (eg. ophthalmology) has a senior participant with power to determine which is the best translation to portuguese, or which are the acceptable translations, for each SNOMED concept. This responsability may be transferred to some of the other participants by this senior one. The regular partipant has only the power to suggest new translations.