HealthCyberMap Subject Search forms: Search ICD-9-CM-coded health and medical Web resources in HealthCyberMap database using either ICD-9-CM numeric codes or their short and long medical textual descriptions and synonyms (Advanced Keyword Search); you can also find related codes to the ones you are seeking, e.g., subtypes of some disease condition in ICD's hierarchy, and retrieve matching Web resource records in HealthCyberMap database. See also: Semantic Subject Search Example below.
HealthCyberMap Resource Index Using ICD-9-CM Top-Level Categories (Text).
Electronic Patient Record-HealthCyberMap Problem to Knowledge Linking Demonstration: ICD-9-CM Codes as Problem to Knowledge Linkers or Knowledge Hooks. In the USA, physicians must use ICD-9-CM codes to refer to diagnoses (mainly for billing purposes). These codes can also act as crisp knowledge hooks for medical problem to knowledge linking.
By making medical Web resources more meaningful to computers, i.e., making their context and meaning (semantics), not merely their raw text and formatting, amenable to computer "understanding" and processing, we can hopefully end up with an "intelligent" medical Web that is more meaningful to the public, patients and their caregivers, and more relevant to the medical questions they ask and the specific clinical problems they face. Clinical codes like SNOMED-CT (a terminology or nomenclature) or ICD (a classification) can help achieving this by acting as basic (template) medical ontologies for mapping the health cyberspace. A terminology (or classification) is a kind of ontology by definition and it should preserve (and "understand") the relationships between the 1,000s of terms in it or else it would become a mere dictionary (or at best a thesaurus). By labelling or tagging a resource with clinical codes, we are automatically establishing the relationships (as defined by the coding scheme used to tag the resource) between this resource and related (tagged) resources in the medical Web and also the Electronic Patient Record.
N.B.: Definition of "Ontology": A domain of discourse for describing some reality. A set of concepts, the attributes of those concepts, and the relationships among concepts that characterise a given application area (van Bemmel and Musen, 1997). See also: SemanticWeb.org.
