Ontology and semantic interoperability of systems sharing biomedical information


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A follow-up document (last update January 26, 2005) is being produced. You may provide input by sending mail to Mr. Ilias Iakovidis.

09.15 – 09.25

Welcome
Rosalie Zobel
Director
European Commission,
DG Information Society
Brussels, Belgium
 
Ontology and Biomedical Informatics
 

09.25 – 09.50

The Future of Clinical Bioinformatics:
Overcoming Obstacles to Information Integration
Barry Smith
European Centre for Ontological Research
Saarbrucken, Germany
 

09.50 – 10.00

The Semantic Mining Project
Hans Åhlfeldt
Dept. Biomed. Eng./Med. Informatics
Linköping, Sweden
 

10:00 – 10:15

Ontologies for biomedical knowledge management
Yum Lina YIP
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Geneva, Switzerland
 

10.15 – 10.30

Oncology Ontology and Clinical Bioinformatics
Anand Kumar
Institute for Formal Ontology
and Medical Information Science
Saarbrucken, Germany
 

10.30 – 10.45

The INFOBIOMED project
Johan van der Lei
Department of Medical Informatics
University Medical Center Rotterdam
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
 

10.45 – 11.00

Interoperability - the failure to connect
Graham Cameron
Associate Director
EMBL Outstation
European Bioinformatics Institute
Cambridge, UK
 
Coffee Break
 

11:30 – 12:30

Round table discussion with speakers and representatives from Medical Informatics, Bio-informatics and Clinical Research
Chairman: Ilias Iakovidis
Deputy Head of Unit - eHealth
European Commission,
DG Information Society
Brussels, Belgium
Round table members:
    Stefan Darmoni   
    Martin Hofmann     
    Victor Maojo           
 
Lunch Break (on the site)
 
 
Ontology and Patient Records Semantic Interoperability
 

13:30 – 14:00

Using realist ontology to link patient
records with terminologies
Werner Ceusters
European Centre for Ontological Research
Saarbrucken, Germany
 

14:00 – 14:20

Large Scale Ontology Engineering for Practical Systems
Alan Rector
University of Manchester
Department of Computer Science
Manchester, UK
 

14:20 – 14.40

On the need of a Patient Process Ontology
Robert Baud
University Hospital of Geneva
Geneva, Switzerland
 

 

Stakeholders presentations

14.40 – 15.00

  • Terminologies, classifications, ontologies
         mapping local woes: what is at stake?
  •    Pierre Lewalle
        Evidence and Information for Policy
        World Health Organisation

    15:00 – 15.20

  • The PIPS project: Personalized Information Platform for Life and Health Services
  •    Alberto Sanna
        Project Coordinator
        Milano, Italy

    15:20 – 15.40

  • A Semantic Web Service-based P2P Infrastructure for the Interoperability of Medical Information systems
  •    Asuman Dogac
        Turkey
     

    15:40 – 17:15

    Discussion with speakers and participants to submit input to the European Commission follow up of the Action Plan
    Chairman: Gérard Comyn
    Head of the Unit ICT for Health
    DG INFSO, European Commission
    Brussels, Belgium
    Round table members:
        Jean-Marie Rodrigues  
        Geraldine Wade     
        Karl A. Stroetmann
        Domenico Pisanelli