- From: David Booth <david@dbooth.org>
- Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:37:59 -0400
- To: "its@lists.hl7.org" <its@lists.HL7.org>, w3c semweb HCLS <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>, yosemiteproject@googlegroups.com
Smart Data Webinar: The Yosemite Project for Healthcare Information Interoperability - Part 1 of Yosemite Series [Part of the Dataversity Smart Data series, and first in a new series of webinars on the Yosemite Project] SPEAKER: David Booth, HRG and Rancho BioSciences DATE: July 9, 2015 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees REGISTER: http://tinyurl.com/Yosemite20150709Register Healthcare data originates in a wide variety of data formats, data models and vocabularies, making information interoperability a major challenge. Although many standards exist, and each one strives for a level of interoperability within its scope, in the aggregate these standards form an uncoordinated patchwork that thwarts interoperability. Furthermore, even when standards are used, translation between data formats, data models and vocabularies is still needed, for a variety of reasons. The Yosemite Project describes an ambitious roadmap for achieving semantic interoperability of all structured healthcare information. Based on RDF as the best available candidate for a universal information representation, this roadmap addresses both the need to 'standardize the standards' and the opportunity to crowdsource data translations that are still required for information interoperability. ABOUT THE SPEAKER David Booth is an independent consultant and senior software architect at both Hawaii Resource Group and Rancho BioSciences, using Semantic Web technology to make healthcare and biomedical 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, where his primary focus was emerging technologies. He was a W3C Fellow from 2002 to 2005, where he worked on Web Services standards before becoming involved in Semantic Web technology. He has been programming for many years using a variety of programming languages and operating systems. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from UCLA. OTHER UPCOMING WEBINARS IN THE YOSEMITE SERIES: July 23 - Why RDF for Healthcare, David Booth, HRG and Rancho BioSciences - Part 2 of 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/
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