CTS Ontology Workshop 2015

Ontology in Practice

The Fourth Clinical and Translational Science Ontology Workshop

September 23 - 25, Charleston, SC

Venue

The Francis Marion Hotel • 387 King Street, Charleston, SC 29403 (Group rates will follow)

Starts: Wed 9/23/15 (5pm)

Ends: Fri 9/25/2015 (3pm)

Registration: will be open soon. There will be a registration fee of $80.

Themes

1. Adoption of Ontologies: Making ontologies work in real world use cases; Modifying or adopting existing ontologies; Addressing challenges in ontology technology; Ontologies in practice for electronic health records (EHR).
2. Methods in Ontologies for Real-World Applications: Mapping terminologies to ontologies; Automated classification/annotation/NLP.

Sub-themes

• Using ontologies for electronic data capture.
• Ontologies for biobanking and informed consents
• Automated annotation, automated classification, clinical (or other) notes NLP, are some ontologies are better for NLP than others?
• In the medical space: ontology and HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR); Ontology and LOINC.
• Work on merging LOINC, SNOMED-CT and RxNorm; Leveraging Basic Formal Ontology (BFO).
• Ontology portals: connecting ontologies, using ontologies in non-redundant comprehensive manner, separating the wheat from the chaff, promoting ontology reuse.
• Licensing issues in adoption of ontologies or terminologies.