Healthcare Informatics Landscapes, Roadmaps, and Blueprints: Towards a Business Case Strategy for Large Scale Ontology Projects moderated by Dr. Bob Smith (California State University) on 11/03/2005

* Topic andquot;Healthcare Informatics Landscapes, Roadmaps, and Blueprints: Towards a Business Case Strategy for Large Scale Ontology Projectsandquot; - Discussion Session-II (GPX) * Date Nov. 3rd, 2005 * Details on ONTOLOG Wiki page http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_11_03 * Moderator Dr. Bob Smith * Panelists BrandNiemann, EPA, chair of the federal Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice, CIO Council MarcWine, GSA Office of Intergovernmental Solutions, Health IT Coordination MarkMusen, Stanford University, Professor of Medicine and Computer Science, Director Stanford Medical Informatics, Director National Center for Ontological Research-Stanford ChristopherChute, Professor and Chairman, Biomedical Informatics, Mayo Foundation DavidWhitten, WorldVistA, Co-founder; Public Domain Knowledge Bank ConradBock, NIST * Objectives This series of Panel Discussions seeks to: 1) Identify the outlines and key landmarks of the current healthcare informatics landscape; 2) Clarify semantic interoperability issues between and amongst existing and planned standards, particularly between OMG-HL7 and OASIS initiatives; 3) Identify an appropriate Ontology Strategy and committment to business valuation; 4) Express key issues for Health Services(Sciences?) Domain Ontology organizational maturity and technology readiness levels; 5) Describe the Time dimension opportunities between remote organizational units. In addition to the previously iterated objectives of this series, Bob Smith and Rex Brooks have identified significant changes in the Healthcare Informatics Landscape which we believe should constitute a basis for specific discussions during the second half of this session: Since our first panel, the American Health Information Community (AHIC) 17-member commission has been empaneled and the first three of four contracts related to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology have been granted by the Dept. of Health and Human Services http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2005pres/20051006a.html These contracts are aimed to Advance Nationwide Interoperable Health Information Technology and will report to the AHIC. Because this group of panelists includes the variety of viewpoints necessary we propose that: Dr. Christopher Chute, representing HL7, Rex Brooks and Brett Trusko, representing OASIS and the International Health Continuum TC in particular, suggest one to three topics related to International Healthcare Standards; (H66) David Whitten, Brand Niemann and Marc Wine, representing Governmental and Inter-Governmental Groups, ranging from local and state to federal jurisdictions, including VistA and Marc Wineandapos;s Health Information Technology Ontology Project (HITOP), as well as the Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice (SICoP) which Brand chairs, suggest one to three topics from this arena; Mark Musen and Bob Smith representing Academic Institutions, and Post Doctoral Research in particular contribute one to three suggested topics from this perspective.