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From: "Cecil O. Lynch, MD, MS" <clynch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 23:41:31 -0700
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Hi Sira,

 

I apologize. I should have answered this question precisely. I am undecided on attendance since I have not written an abstract. I usually do not attend if I am not presenting since I already travel well over a third of the year. I will have to see what my schedule allows for the conference.

 

Cecil

 

From: ontology-summit-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ontology-summit-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sirarat Sarntivijai
Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2011 11:26 PM
To: Ontology Summit 2011 discussion
Subject: [SPAM] Re: [ontology-summit] Ontology Summit 2011 Symposium Agenda and rules

 

A quick apology and clarification, I was referring to the ICBO in Buffalo, a conference specifically designed for ontologies in Biomedical domain. I wasn't sure if that was made clear by me.

 

I do apologize for the confusion. And I am looking forward to the release of your ontology for all notifiable disease.

 

Thank you :)

Sira

 

 

On Apr 17, 2011, at 2:07 AM, Cecil O. Lynch, MD, MS wrote:



Thank you Sira,

 

We are also currently constructing the OWL ontology for all Nationally Notifiable Diseases and all Categories A, B and C Bioterrorism agents Laboratory Reporting Ontology on behalf of the CDC (US Centers for Disease Control) as well. This will be released on May 1 of this year (which is why I cannot attend the Ontology Summit as I am not done with the work yet and under deadline).

 

This will be coupled with the Mirth open source HL7 interface engine and made available nationwide for lab report filtering.

 

I can't legitimately include it as a use case since we have not finished it yet, but it will be one for next year.

 

Cecil

 

Chief Knowledge Engineer

OntoReason, LLC

916-412-5504

 

Assistant Professor

Pathology Informatics

UC Davis School of Medicine

 

From: ontology-summit-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ontology-summit-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sirarat Sarntivijai
Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2011 10:47 PM
To: Ontology Summit 2011 discussion
Cc: Yongqun He
Subject: [SPAM] Re: [ontology-summit] Ontology Summit 2011 Symposium Agenda and rules

 

Dear Cecil et al.,

 

Excuse me if I jumped in out of the blue without proper knowledge background of what has been going on in this thread. But your discussion did grab my attention today. I was wondering if you'd be attending the International Conference on Biomedical Ontology in late July. There will be a workshop on the development of Adverse Event Ontology, of which one of the use cases is observing and analyzing the post-vaccination surveillance data of Influenza vaccines. These data were drawn from CDC VEARS system. This may be of some of your interest as the work seems to be very much related.

 

I'll be very much happy to learn from Ontoreason, and thank you very much for bringing this issue into light.

Sira

 

 

On Apr 17, 2011, at 12:49 AM, Cecil O. Lynch, MD, MS wrote:




Leo,

 

I am very late in joining the discussion and will only be able to attend the summit by conference call, but I have 2 use cases I could add as needed but may have waited too late.

 

First use case is the CDC National Tuberculosis Surveillance System which we built for the CDC and has been live in production for 2 years this month without downtime or error. It is based on OWL ontology and OWL to JESS rules. It performs HL7 V2 message construct validation, Terminology resolution, and decision support to detect and classify normal, non-resistant TB from Multi-drug resistance or Extensive Drug Resistance categories.

 

The major point of this use case is that we were asked to upgrade to a new version of the Message with only 7 days till go live. We were able to accomplish this because of the ontology driven nature of the application which meant only modifications to the ontology needed to be mad and no source code rewritten, so we accomplished this in 4 days and went live on time and on budget. This would have taken at least 2 months (CDC estimate) to rewrite the existing application we replaced.

 

 

The Second use case is the NCI (National Cancer Institute), CDISC (Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium), and HL7 (Health Level 7) BRIDG model (Biomedical Research Integrated Domain Group), a global Pharma, Clinical Research and Clinical Care domain analysis model.

 

This model is built on UML but has an HL7 Version 3 RIM (Reference Information Model) as a more refined and detailed interpretation. We have a middle layer of an OWL ontology that relates the UML to the RIM model and validates and classifies new class and attribute additions to the model. It uses SKOS to mitigate the differences in granularity between the models and uses an OWL to JESS reasoning application to classify new additions to the model and adjudicate discrepancies between model additions and both layers of the model.

 

Both of these are active, long deployed applications that are global in nature so may be helpful to make the case for Ontology. If they are helpful and not too late I can flesh them out a bit more as needed. Of course if I have waited too long accept my apologies and discard them.

 

Thanks

 

Cecil

 

 

Chief Knowledge Engineer

OntoReason, LLC

916-412-5504

 

Assistant Professor

Pathology Informatics

UC Davis School of Medicine

 

 

 

 

 

From: ontology-summit-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ontology-summit-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Obrst, Leo J.
Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2011 7:59 PM
To: Ontology Summit 2011 discussion
Subject: [SPAM] Re: [ontology-summit] Ontology Summit 2011 Symposium Agenda and rules

 

Ok, folks, a slight update:

 

 

Thanks,

Leo

 

 

From: ontology-summit-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ontology-summit-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Obrst, Leo J.
Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2011 2:40 PM
To: Ontology Summit 2011 discussion (ontology-summit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Subject: [ontology-summit] Ontology Summit 2011 Symposium Agenda and rules

 

All,

 

The final Ontology Summit 2011 Symposium agenda is at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2011_Symposium#nid2PU5.

 

Please note that the following rule (the “Fabian Rule” as we are calling it from last year, named for our colleague and co-organizer Fabian Neuhaus) will be in effect during the Symposium for discussion on the Communique. This will help us avoid disruptions, argumentation over trifles, and improve the quality of our discourse.  

 

Any participant of the Ontology Summit can submit by email change requests or raise questions for debate at the workshop until the deadline of Saturday evening, 6 pm EDT, April 16, 2011. This is prior to the Ontology Summit Symposium.

After the deadline, a new change request/question can be only raised if it is supported by at least 3 participants of the Summit.

Leo and  Ram’s addendum: We will strictly enforce a time limit on the discussion per issue.

 

As previous Ontology Summit old-timers will recall, much of our time was spent wordsmithing. Unfortunately (or fortunately), we don’t have time for that. Having an overview of the open issues prior to the Ontology Summit Symposium allows the organizers to plan/adjust the agenda  and the discussion moderators to ensure that all  issues are addressed. Please note that the first day of the Symposium is devoted to the Track champions’ reports and the Communiqué  discussion. The Communiqué will be final at the end of the first day.

 

Thanks, and we look forward to  seeing (or hearing) you all at the Symposium Monday!

 

Ram and Leo

 

 

 


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