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 at 5pm with an optional reception. The workshop begins at 8am Thu 9/24/15.

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.

Participants

William Hogan (University of Florida)

Jihad Obeid (Medical University of South Carolina)

Barry Smith (University at Buffalo)

Organizing Committee

Barry Smith (University at Buffalo)

William Hogan (University of Florida)

Jihad Obeid (Medical University of South Carolina)