Fwd: Informal session on the upcoming ICBO 2012: Knowledge Management in Public Health - Experiences Using an Ontology Based Approach (Saturday, 18:00-20:00)

[Melanie Courtot]

Forwarded on behalf of Laszlo Balkanyi.

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Dear all,

 

Warmly welcome to the planned informal session `Knowledge Management in Public Health - Experiences Using an Ontology Based Approach`. Here is what we plan to discuss with you, who will be interested.

 

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Dr. Laszlo Balkanyi

Md PhD

knowledge manager

ECDC RMC ICKS KMLG

www.ecdc.europa.eu

tel: +46761010708

 

 

Knowledge Management in Public Health - Experiences Using an Ontology Based Approach

-          informal meeting on 21th July,  18:00 – 20:00, ICB0, Graz

 

Time(min)	What?	How?	Who?
0-10	Introduction of participants	roll call	participants
10 – 20	Warm up, focusing on one issue: why we think ontologies, terminology systems are needed in public health?	quick round table	Cecil, Laszlo and participants
20 - 35	First example in details: HL7 ORU in OWL -  in CDC US Centers for Disease Control sponsored HL7 Meaningful Use Electronic Laboratory Reporting Nationally Notifiable Disease Ontology. The structure of the HL7 ORU lab reporting message in OWL and the binding of standards based terminologies (SNOMED and LOINC) will be demonstrated along with how these message based ontologies may be implemented to aid in automated laboratory disease reporting to public health authorities.	presentation	Cecil
35 – 45	Comments, questions to first example	quick round table	participants
45 - 60	Second example: ECDC terminology server The development process of an (ontology based) terminology service at the European Centre of Disease Prevention and Control will be demonstrated. Lessons learned and current experiences with the system in production will be explained. Live access to (full) test version on line will show the system, both the human user interface to browse / edit the value sets and the machine user interface with a flexible, SOAP based interface answering queries of client applications.	Presentation + live access to ECDC TS	Laszlo
60-70	Comments, questions to second example	quick round table	participants
70 – 85	Third example will be the use of ontology for message validation and decision support in the US CDC National Tuberculosis surveillance system.	presentation	Cecil
85-95	Comments, questions to third example	quick round table	participants
95- 105	Other examples mentioned by the audience on using terminology systems in public health with / based on an ontology thinking	round table	participants
105-110	Demonstration of an open source OWL terminology construction tool	Live demonstration	Cecil
110-120	Wrap up – suggestion for a position paper	round table	participants

 

 

 

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