Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Technology Management, Holon Institute of Technology, Israel; Faculty of Digital Technologies in Medicine, Holon Institute of Technology, Israel; European Federation for Medical Informatics, Le Mont-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland.
Department of Biomedical Informatics, Rouen University Hospital, France; LIMICS Laboratory of Medical Informatics and Knowledge Engineering in e-Health, INSERM U1142, Sorbonne Université, France.
Int J Med Inform. 2022 Nov;167:104860. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2022.104860. Epub 2022 Aug 29.
Even if English is the leading language for international communication, it is essential to keep in mind that research runs at the local level by local teams generally communicating in their local/national language, especially in Europe among European projects.
Therefore, the European Federation for Medical Informatics - Working Group on Health Informatics for Inter-regional Cooperation" has one objective: To develop a multilingual ontology focusing on Health Informatics and Digital Health as a collaboration tool that improves international and, in particular, European collaborations.
We have developed the Medical Informatics and Digital Health Multilingual Ontology (MIMO). Hosted on the Health Terminology/Ontology Portal (HeTOP), MIMO contains around 1,000 concepts, 460 MeSH Descriptors, 220 MeSH Concepts, and more than 300 newly created concepts. MIMO is continuously updated to comprise as recent as possible concepts and their translations in more than 30 languages. Moreover, the MIMO's development team constantly improves MIMO content and supporting information. Thus, during workshop discussions and one-on-one exchanges, the MIMO team has collected domain experts' opinions about the community's interests and suggestions for future enhancements. Moreover, MIMO will be integrated to support the annotation and categorization of research products into the HosmartAI European project involving more than 20 countries around Europe and worldwide.
MIMO is hosted by HeTOP (Health Terminology/Ontology Portal), which integrates 100 terminologies and ontologies in 55 languages. MIMO is freely available online. MIMO is portable to other knowledge platforms as part of MIMO's main aims to facilitate communication between medical librarians, translators, and researchers as well as to support students' self-learning.
尽管英语是国际交流的主要语言，但仍需牢记，研究通常由当地团队在当地进行，他们通常使用当地/国家语言进行交流，尤其是在欧洲的欧洲项目中。
因此，“欧洲医学信息学联合会-区域间合作健康信息学工作组”有一个目标：开发一个多语言本体，专注于健康信息学和数字健康，作为一种协作工具，以改善国际合作，特别是欧洲合作。
我们开发了医学信息学和数字健康多语言本体（MIMO）。MIMO 托管在健康术语/本体门户（HeTOP）上，包含大约 1000 个概念、460 个 MeSH 描述符、220 个 MeSH 概念和 300 多个新创建的概念。MIMO 不断更新，以包含尽可能最新的概念及其在 30 多种语言中的翻译。此外，MIMO 的开发团队不断改进 MIMO 的内容和支持信息。因此，在研讨会讨论和一对一交流中，MIMO 团队收集了领域专家对社区利益的意见以及对未来增强功能的建议。此外，MIMO 将被集成到 HosmartAI 欧洲项目中，以支持将研究产品注释和分类到该项目中，该项目涉及欧洲和全球 20 多个国家。
MIMO 托管在 HeTOP（健康术语/本体门户）上，该门户集成了 55 种语言的 100 个术语和本体。MIMO 在线免费提供。MIMO 可移植到其他知识平台，这是 MIMO 的主要目标之一，旨在促进医学图书馆员、翻译人员和研究人员之间的沟通，并支持学生的自主学习。
