HealthOntologyMapping/ConferenceCall 2005 02 01

[HEALTH-ONT] Health Ontology Pilot Project Kick-off Conference Call - Tue 2005-02-01    (8GB)

Conference Call Details    (8GC)

• Subject: [HEALTH-ONT] Health Ontology Pilot Project conference call Tue 2005-02-01    (8GD)

• Agenda Comments:    (8GE)
  • this is the kick-off meeting for the potential SICoP-Ontolog joint project to do a Health Ontology Mapping pilot for FHA-ONCHIT    (8GF)
  • ... build rapport; ... sync up; ... distribute, assign or arbitrate virtual ownership of tasks; ... and use it to deal with emergencies. ... plus, member suggested agenda items.    (8GG)
  • please post any suggested agenda items to the call wiki page and upload any material to be shared to the list, to the wiki or by WebDAV upload prior to the meeting    (8GH)
  • VNC session (if needed) will be started 5 minutes before the call at: http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800/    (8GI)
    • view-only password: "ontolog"    (8GJ)
    • view-and-control pw: to be supplied during session as needed    (8GK)
  • Wiki page for this call (i.e. this page) is at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?HealthOntologyMapping/ConferenceCall_2005_02_01    (8GL)
• Date: Tuesday, Feb. 01, 2005    (8GM)
• Start Time: 10:30 AM PST / 1:30 PM EST World Clock    (8GN)
• Expected Call Duration: 1 ~ 1.5 hour    (8GO)
• Dial-in Number: 1-702-851-3330 (Las Vegas, Nevada)    (8GP)
• Participant Access Code: "686564#"    (8GQ)

Attendees    (8GR)

• Attended:    (8GS)
  • KurtConrad    (8GT)
  • PaulKoch    (8GU)
  • LijuFan (Kevric)    (8GV)
  • MarkMusen    (8GW)
  • PeterYim    (8GX)
  • BrandNiemann    (8GY)
  • BobSmith    (8GZ)

• Expecting:    (8H0)

• Regrets:    (8H1)

Agenda Ideas    (8H2)

Resources    (8H3)

• NhinRfi - the RFI response project page    (8H4)

• HealthOntologyMapping - potential new project page    (8H5)

• Background material provided by BrandNiemann 2005.01.26    (8H6)
  • http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/health-ont/reference/Health_Domains_2005-01-26.ppt    (8H7)
  • http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/health-ont/reference/HL7.xls    (8H8)

Agenda & Proceedings    (8H9)

1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda    (8HA)

• BrandNiemann took the chair and welcomed everyone.    (8HB)

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes    (8HC)

• PeterYim volunteered    (8HD)

3) Roll-call of participants    (8HE)

• see above    (8HF)

4) Introducing this potential pilot project    (8HG)

• BrandNiemann suggested a SICoP-Ontolog joint pilot, which was well received, at the FHA-ONCHIT meeting on Jan. 26, 2005.    (8HH)
  • Ref. Brand's post (with background material): http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2005-01/msg00037.html    (8HI)

5) Project Discussion    (8HJ)

• Brand:    (8HK)
  • comments on the two items requested    (8HL)
  • Brand will be participating at one of the ONCHIT RFI response workgroups    (8HM)
    • we thought Susan will be participating too, but maybe not, due to lack of time (--updated: ppy/2005.02.09)    (8HN)
  • Peter can report on our activities at the 2/22/05 CEW (Mary Forbes will be at the CEW)    (8HO)
    • Peter to set up schedule with Brand offline, on possibly a separate meeting the next day (Wed 2005.02.23 morning)    (8HP)

•    (8HQ)
  • Kurt: what is the problem we would need to solve?    (8HR)
    • Brand: to help justify IT budgets, we need to enhance interoperability for the Health IT Systems (and demonstrate we can help them with it if they adopt the ontological engineering approach)    (8HS)
      • the Europeans have a framework to tackle: organizational, tactical and semantic interoperability    (8HT)
  • Peter / Mark: mapping or producing ontologies are doable, but we would need to make some use case "applications" to demonstrate the value of the ontology    (8HU)
  • Mark: on top of the ontology, maybe we should produce, as part of the deliverables a set of "queries" that would demonstrate the use of the ontology    (8HV)
    • Paul concurs. A demo on the efficacy of ontology will definitely be useful.    (8HW)

•    (8HX)
  • Brand: Mitre is funded for this work. They are expected to provide thought leadership too; maybe we can work with them    (8HY)
    • Al Krotman is the point person    (8HZ)
    • Ontolog can put togther a proposal to Al. Can also call Al too (on Brand's suggestion).    (8I0)

•    (8I1)
  • refer to Brand's paper at: http://web-services.gov/NICS01202005.doc    (8I2)
    • review and comments request (Adam's feedback, especially)    (8I3)
    • we can use something similar for Health    (8I4)

•    (8I5)
  • Brand, again, suggested we look at Professor Asuman Dogac's work in Europe (ref:http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?NhinRfi/ConferenceCall_2005_01_11#nid082), and possibly invite her to be part of the team.    (8I6)

• Mark: the talk this Friday (2005.02.04 at Stanford University) by Dr. Brailer is open    (8I7)
  • Mark, Bob, Kurt and Peter will be there    (8I8)
  • Bob, Kurt and Peter will have lunch together ater that morning session. Mark's cannot conifrm his avilability yet. We'll try to have Mark there too, if at all possible    (8I9)

• Timeline - Urgency    (8IA)
  • Brand: we should come up with something within a week of two - say, a powerpoint presentation and some ontology demo    (8IB)
  • let's aim at having some deliverable (for this cycle) by Mon 2005.02.14    (8IC)

• Bob agreed to take on the coordination role and be our project leader for this pilot project.    (8ID)

6) Sponsorship and funding    (8IE)

• this cycle is possibly not funded    (8IF)
• refer also to discussion above ref. Mitre    (8IG)

7) Other business    (8IH)

• none    (8II)

8) Next meeting date and adjourn    (8IJ)

• call adjourned 11:23am PST    (8IK)
• next call will be on Fri 2005.02.11 starting at 8:00am PST    (8IL)

• a few of those who are in the San Francisco Bay Area (California) will be meeting Fri 2005.02.04 for Dr. Brailer's talk at Stanford, and to work on this pilot.    (8IM)

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 minutes captured in real time on this wiki by PeterYim
 ppy / 2005.02.01 11:26am PST    (8IN)