Method and Apparatus for Providing the Information of Adverse Drug Effects

Abstract

A method and apparatus for providing the information of adverse drug effects. The method includes: extracting at least a first information and a second information in basic information of a drug from a drug information source; matching the drug with a particular drug-related concept in a structured and normalized terminology system according to the first and the second information; extracting, from the drug information source, the information of Adverse Drug Effects associated with the drug; and matching the information of Adverse Drug Effects with a particular disorder-related concept in the structured and normalized terminology system; wherein the matching is along different paths in at least two disorder-related classified hierarchies. The invention can extract, standardize, and normalize information relating to adverse drug effects to help the integration, search, calculation, and propagation thereof.

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