Re: WEBINAR 2pm ET Thur Jul 23: Why RDF for Healthcare Interoperability - SLIDES NOW AVAILABLE

Slides for today's webinar are now available:
http://yosemiteproject.org/2015/webinars/why-rdf/why-rdf.pdf

Submit questions by email before, during or after
the event: david@dbooth.org

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WEBINAR: Why RDF for Healthcare Interoperability - David Booth
  (Part 2 of Yosemite Series)
DATE: July 23, 2015
TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific
PRICE: Free to all attendees
ATTEND LIVE: Google Hangouts On Air: https://goo.gl/6xt8hu
CALENDAR INVITE: http://goo.gl/wUQiZx

ABSTRACT
The President's Council of Advisors on Science and
Technology (PCAST) identified the need for a universal
healthcare exchange language as a key enabler for healthcare
information interoperability.  This presentation briefly
explains why Resource Description Framework (RDF) is the
"best available candidate" for this use, both in terms of its
general characteristics for enabling information information
integration and interoperability, and for its suitability to
address the particular complexities of healthcare information
interoperability.  RDF complements other healthcare information
standards by providing a common semantic basis for achieving
information interoperability without requiring major changes
to existing IT infrastructure.  RDF is not "just another
data format".  It is fundamentally different from other
frequently used information representations such as XML or JSON.
This presentation explains why.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
David Booth David Booth, PhD, is a senior software architect at
Hawaii Resource Group and at Rancho BioSciences, using Semantic
Web technology to make clinical healthcare data interoperable
between diverse systems.  He previously worked at KnowMED,
using Semantic Web technology for healthcare quality-of-care
and clinical outcomes measurement, and at PanGenX, applying
Semantic Web technology to genomics in support of personalized
medicine. Before that he worked on Cleveland Clinic's SemanticDB
project, which uses RDF and other semantic technologies to
perform cardiovascular research. Prior to that was a software
architect at HP Software. He was also a W3C Fellow from 2002
to 2005, where he worked on Web Services standards before
becoming involved in Semantic Web technology. He holds a
Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA.

OTHER UPCOMING WEBINARS IN THE YOSEMITE SERIES:

Aug 6 - drugdocs: Using RDF to produce one coherent, definitive
dataset about drugs, Conor Dowling, Caregraf - Part 3 of
Yosemite Series

Sept 3 - Linked VistA: VA Linked Data Approach to Semantic
Interoperability, Rafael Richards, Veterans Affairs - Part 4
of Yosemite Series

Sept 17 - Clinical data in FHIR RDF: Intro and Representation,
Josh Mandel, Children's Hospital Informatics Program at
Harvard-MIT, and David Booth, HRG - Part 5 of Yosemite Series

.. . . and more to be announced!

Sincerely,
David Booth, PhD
http://YosemiteProject.org/

Received on Thursday, 23 July 2015 16:04:47 UTC