CTSA Ontology Workshop

The National Center for Biomedical Ontology will organize an ontology Tutorial and Workshop, tentatively planned for spring 2012. The Tutorial will provide an introduction to ontology for beginners, 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 for the future.

Day 0 Tutorial: Introduction to Ontology for Non-Experts

Day 1 Major Ontology Initiatives within the CTSA Consortium

Chris Chute (Mayo): Data Governance and Normalization within the Mayo Clinic Enterprise

Jessica Tennenbaum (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): Building an Ontology-Based Clinical Data Warehouse

Possibly also: OCRe (for clinical research), Permissions Ontology (for consent; owned by Jihad Obeid at Medical University of South Carolina)

Day 2 Morning: EHR, Ontology and Interoperability

Presentations by EHR vendors

Rob Wynden (UCSF): The Health Ontology Mapper (HOM).

Day 3 Afternoon: 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?