Healthcare Informatics Landscapes,
Roadmaps, Blueprints:
Toward a Business Case Strategy
for Large Scale Ontology Projects
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An Ontolog Forum Virtual Panel Discussion
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Bob Smith, Professor Emeritus, California State University
Marc Wine, GSA Office of Intergovernmental Solutions
Mark Musen, MD, PhD, Head, Stanford Medical Informatics &
Protégé
Ram Sriram, PhD, Lead, Design Process Group in Manufacturing
Systems Integration Division NIST/Mgr. Manufacturing Metrology
and Standards for Healthcare Enterprise Program
David Whitten, Senior Computer Specialist, U.S. Dept. of Veterans
Affairs, Founder of WorldVistA, OpenVistA
Brand Niemann, PhD, Computer Scientist, EPA, chair of Semantic
Interoperability Community of Practice (SICoP)
Moderator: Rex Brooks,
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Executive Director, Humanmarkup.org, Inc.
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Landscapes, Roadmaps,Blueprints: Useful
Metaphors for Domain Mapping,
Navigating, Planning & Building Process
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Chief Propositions
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We Have Reached a “Tipping Point”
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Gordon Bell’s Peaks in Developing
Standards: Where are we?
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Dr. Brailer’s Office of National Coordinator for
Health Information Technology (ONCHIT) Taking
Form (Federal Register Notice-August 19, 2005)
Large IT Players Taking Notice (Members of CEN,
HL7/OMG, OASIS, etc)
Tech Innovation>Trough (Standards Work)>
$Billion Investments Stampede Standards Work
Do we need a Problem Statement?
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Landscape
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Not a Great Lack of Standards (HL7,
DICOM, LOINC, CCOW, SNOMED, etc.)
Not a Lack of Standards Organizations
(ISO, IEEE, OASIS, CEN, HL7/OMG,
ECRI etc.)
Lack of Adoption, Lack of Coordination,
Duplication & Overlap, Discoverability
& Accessibility of Standards, etc
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Landscape Shapes Ontological
Framework: Standards Should
Match Level/Granularity Needs
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Roadmap Constraints
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Roadmap Axes:
Matrix of Time, Place,
Threat & Privacy/Security
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Blueprints Will be Needed
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Lists of Standards & Lists of Standards
Organizations are not very Useful
Ontologies of Both & Relationships
Combined in Registries with Mappings
Needed
Blueprints Derived from Roadmaps
Derived from Landscape Can Make
Major Step Forward
Health IT Integration the BIG GOAL
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