CTSA Ontology Workshop
The National Center for Biomedical Ontology is planning a CTSA Ontology Tutorial and Workshop in its series of training and dissemination events.
The Tutorial will provide an introduction to ontology technology focusing on the needs of CTSA clinical scientists.
The Workshop will provide an opportunity for those involved in ontology-related projects across the CTSA Consortium to review what has been achieved thus far and consider plans and strategies for enhanced coordination in the future.
Venue: To be decided
Date: Scheduled tentatively for spring 2012
Organization: Barry Smith (NCBO), Jessica Tenenbaum (Duke), Rob Wynden (UCSF)
Tutorial Day 0
Introduction to Ontology for Non-Experts
Workshop Day 1
Major Ontology Initiatives within the CTSA Consortium
- Chris Chute (Mayo): Data Governance and Normalization within the Mayo Clinic Enterprise
- Melissa Haendel (Oregon) and Jon Corson-Rikert (Cornell): eagle-i and VIVO Ontology Initiatives
- Jessica Tenenbaum (Duke): Remarks on Genetics Ontologies
- William Hogan (Arkansas) and Werner Ceusters (Buffalo): Referent Tracking and Demographic Data Ontology
- Shawn Murphy (Partners): i2b2-Specific Ontologies
- Richard Scheuermann and Lindsay Cowell (Dallas): NLP-Based Mapping of Textbook Pathology to Ontology for General Medical Science (OGMS)
- Possibly also: OCRe (for clinical research), Permissions Ontology (for consent; owned by Jihad Obeid at Medical University of South Carolina); BRO and Biositmaps (for resource registry)
Workshop Day 2
EHR, Ontology and Interoperability
- Presentations by EHR vendors
- Rob Wynden (UCSF): The Health Ontology Mapper (HOM).
Next Steps
- How can we measure the value brought by ontology-based approaches?
- How can we ensure high-quality and high-value approaches?
- How can we promote a consistent approach across the CTSA consortium?