WEBINAR 2pm ET Thur Jul 9: The Yosemite Project for Healthcare Information Interoperability

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/

Received on Thursday, 9 July 2015 02:38:50 UTC