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Within Healthcare Informatics, why is UMLS (Unified Medical Language System) of interest to HIM professionals?
UMLS is the Unified Medical Language system. This facilitates the understanding of the medical terms or biomedical facts by the user enquiries and the usage of this to retrieve and integrate relevant machine-readable formats or information’s to users. This also helps in stimulate the information system computer programs with the biomedical information.
The Health Information Systems (HIM) integrates all the medical information regarding the user. It facilitates the fast information accessing and processing.
The UMLS is the interest to HIM professional because of the following reasons:
1. Common language code or Unique Code for all biomedicals in program.
2. Easy Understanding of medical terms globally.
3. Integration with different systems become easier.
4. Personal benefits as experiences many count in different fields of medical Information system.
5. Processing would reduce time.