title: Clinical terminology server
text: # Clinical terminology server
  
  A clinical terminology server is a terminology server, which contains and provides access to clinical terminology.
  
  ## Background
  
  The first generic description of general terminology servers per se was produced by the European GALEN Project. Rector et al. outline the functional attributes of the GALEN terminology server.
  
  A clinical terminology server provides the following services to client applications:
  
  * management of external references
  * management of internal representations
  * mapping natural language to concepts and vv
  * mapping concepts to medical classification schemes
  * management of extrinsic information
  
  The main purpose of a clinical terminology server is to allow the consistent and comparable entry of clinical data, e.g. patient observations, findings and events.
  
  