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For more information refer to the <a href="http://rdfs.org/sioc">SIOC project page</a> eHealth Ontology Project Latest Contributions Infectious Disease: A Challenge for Biomedical Informatics Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York Speakers: Michael Ashburner, Vance Fowler, Steven Gordon, Ronald Veazey September 21, 2007 In association with a two day Workshop on Infectious Disease Ontology September 19 - 20, 2007 Workshop Application deadline: June 15, 2007 Read more... http://www.ehealthserver.com/ontology/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=26&amp;Itemid=1 Classes versus Individuals: Fundamental Design Issues for Ontologies on the Biomedical Semantic Web We can distinguish two general strategies for knowledge representation in biomedicine: the linguistic approach (which is focused on describing term meanings) and the realist ontological approach (which is focused on describing things in reality itself). The former approach is increasingly disregarded in favour of the latter, mainly because the ontological approach is more intuitive and self- consistent. Read more... http://www.ehealthserver.com/ontology/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=25&amp;Itemid=1 What is eHealth? Everybody talks about e-health these days, but few people have come up with a clear definition of this comparatively new term. Barely in use before 1999, this term now seems to serve as a general "buzzword," used to characterize not only "Internet medicine", but also virtually everything related to computers and medicine. The term was apparently first used by industry leaders and marketing people rather than academics. They created and used this term in line with other "e- words" such as e-commerce, e-business, e-solutions, and so on, in an attempt to convey the promises, principles, excitement (and hype) around e-commerce (electronic commerce) to the health arena, and to give an account of the new possibilities the Internet is opening up to the area of health care. Read more... http://www.ehealthserver.com/ontology/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=24&amp;Itemid=1 10th Intl. Protégé Conference - July 15-18, 2007 - Budapest, Hungary The 10th International Protégé Conference will take place at the Hotel Benczúr in Budapest, Hungary from July 15-18, 2007. The conference brings together researchers developing or using Protégé methodologies and tools and is the premier forum for discussion about current and future applications of the Protégé approach. Read more... http://www.ehealthserver.com/ontology/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=23&amp;Itemid=1 1st International WORKSHOP on Ontologies and Information Systems for the Semantic Web (ONISW 2007) The emergence of the World Wide Web made massive amounts of data available. Data exists in many scattered electronic data sources (e- sources) over the Web. Even though some of the data is in well- organized data sources, interoperability and integration with data from other sources, semantic coordination and conflict resolution are required for its full exploitation. Semantic Web enabled applications can potentially produce better results for semantic integration, interoperability and search. In particular, ontologies are widely regarded as the best solution to global information integration and semantic interoperability. Read more... http://www.ehealthserver.com/ontology/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=22&amp;Itemid=1 SemanticMining - a Network of Excellence in the field of Biomedical Informatics The objective of the Network of Excellence entitled Semantic Interoperability and Data Mining in Biomedicine SemanticMining funded by the European Sixth Framework Programme, is to establish Europe as the international scientific leader in medical and biomedical informatics. The long-term goal of the network will be the development of generic methods and tools supporting the critical tasks of the field; data mining, knowledge discovery, knowledge representation, abstraction and indexing of information, semantic-based information retrieval in a complex and high-dimensional information space, and knowledge-based adaptive systems for provision of decision support for dissemination of evidence based medicine. Read more... http://www.ehealthserver.com/ontology/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=21&amp;Itemid=1 College of American Pathologists Introduces SNOMED Terminology Solutions The College of American Pathologists (CAP) is renaming its SNOMED International division. The division will now be called SNOMED Terminology Solutions and follows last week's announcement regarding the formation of the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO) that acquired the intellectual property rights of SNOMED Clinical Terms® (SNOMED CT®) and its antecedents from the CAP. Read more... http://www.ehealthserver.com/ontology/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=20&amp;Itemid=1 The Derives_From Relation in Biomedical Ontologies In recent years the use of ontologies for the development of medical information systems has witnessed an explosive growth. However, initial attempts to use ontologies to support information management in biomedicine have focused primarily on the formulation and definition of terms. In ontologies and terminologies such as the Gene Ontology, SNOMED the formal treatment of the relations which would link these terms has been neglected. Read more... http://www.ehealthserver.com/ontology/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=19&amp;Itemid=1 An Ontology-Based Methodology for the Migration of Biomedical Terminologies to EHR Biomedical terminologies are focused on what is general, Electronic Health Records (EHRs) on what is particular, and it is commonly assumed that the step from the one to the other is unproblematic. We argue that this is not so, and that, if the EHR of the future is to fulfill its promise, then the foundations of both EHR architectures and biomedical terminologies need to be reconceived. Read more... http://www.ehealthserver.com/ontology/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=16&amp;Itemid=1 Key Issues of Technical Interoperability Solutions in eHealth and the RIDE Project One of the key problems in healthcare informatics is the lack of interoperability among different healthcare information systems. Interoperability can be investigated in different categories in the eHealth domain, such as the interoperability of the messages exchanged between healthcare applications, interoperability of Electronic Healthcare Records (EHRs), interoperability of patient identifiers, coding terms, clinical guidelines and healthcare business processes. Read more... http://www.ehealthserver.com/ontology/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=14&amp;Itemid=1 Sincerely, Ruslan David, MD IFOMIS eHealth Ontology Project http://www.ehealthserver.com/ontology/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIOC-Dev" group. To post to this group, send email to sioc-dev@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sioc-dev-unsubscribe@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sioc-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- 2007-05-15T13:29:32+01:00 2007-05-17T09:38:42+01:00