Health Interoperability Webinar
Oct 16, 2014David Booth, who’s working with the FHIR team on RDF format, asked me to post this to alert my readers to this:
I want to be sure you’re all aware of a free webinar series we are
producing at SemanticWeb.com about the “Yosemite Project.” You can read more about that project here:http://semanticweb.com/semantic-interoperability-electronic-healthcare-info-agenda-u-s-veterans-health-administration_b44360The webinar details are below and you can sign up to attend the live event here:http://content.dataversity.net/101714YosemitePART1_SWWeinarRegistrationPage.htmlWEBINAR DETAILS DATE:October 17, 2014 TIME:2 PMEastern /11 AMPacific PRICE: Free to all attendees Registration link: *http://content.dataversity.net/101714YosemitePART1_SWWeinarRegistrationPage.htmlAbout the Webinar***
Interoperability of electronic healthcare information remains an enormous challenge in spite of 100+ available healthcare information standards. This webinar explains the Yosemite Project, whose mission is to achieve semantic interoperability of all structured healthcare information through RDF as a common semantic foundation. It explains the rationale and technical strategy of the Yosemite Project, and describes how RDF and related standards address a two-pronged strategy for semantic interoperability: facilitating collaborative standards convergence whenever possible, and crowd-sourced data translations when necessary.
About the Speaker**
David Booth is a senior software architect at Hawaii Resource Group, LLC, using Semantic Web technology to make clinical healthcare data interoperable between diverse systems. He previously worked at KnowMED, using Semantic Web technology for healthcare quality-of-care and clinical outcomes measurement, and at PanGenX, applying Semantic Web technology to genomics in support of personalized medicine. Before that he worked on Cleveland Clinic’s SemanticDB project, which uses RDF and other semantic technologies to perform cardiovascular research. Prior to that was a software architect at HP Software, where his primary focus was emerging technologies. He was a W3C Fellow from 2002 to 2005, where he worked on Web Services standards before becoming involved in Semantic Web technology. He has been programming for many years using a variety of programming languages and operating systems. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA.
Integration and translation will remain part of what we do for many decades, at least. I know that a lot of what we have to do involves implicit knowledge, and special rules, but it will be interesting to see how a stable knowledge foundation might be able to be leveraged to make it easier to get there.