WEBINAR: Standardize the Standards: Using RDF for Healthcare Information
Interoperability, David Booth - Part 6 of Yosemite Series
DATE: Thursday October 22, 2015
TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific
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ABSTRACT
One of the major themes in the Yosemite Project interoperability roadmap
is to standardize the standards, using RDF as a common foundation. What
does this mean, and how can it be achieved? Healthcare currently has
over 100 standard vocabularies in use, and many more proprietary
vocabularies. They use a wide variety of data models and data formats,
and often define similar terms inconsistently. How can we now link
existing standards in a common, computable way? How can we eventually
converge on a consistent set of shared concepts that span healthcare's
many specialties and use cases? And how can we do this while allowing
new use cases and specialties to evolve and improve efficiently? This
webinar explains how we can realistically make our healthcare
information standards -- both de jure and de facto -- work together as
though they are parts of one large, consistent standard covering all of
healthcare.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
David Booth, PhD, is a senior software architect at Hokukahu LLC, 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.
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