Speech Abstract:
The Role of Terminology and eHealth: A Report from the US National Institutes of Health
Controlled terminologies play important roles in eHealth ranging from the recording of patient data, to the representation of high-level concepts in expert systems and indexing terms in health knowledge sources. Certain characteristics of a terminology (the so-called "desiderata") can affect the usability and usefulness. In the past decade, there has been increasing attention to these characteristics, with the development of new, high-quality terminologies. Dr. Cimino's presentation will describe some of these characteristics and demonstrate some examples of how high quality temrinologies support sophisticated eHealth applications. For example, the inclusion of multiple hierarcies in a terminology can support automated alerts and reminders, while the formal representation of definitional knowledge can support "infobuttons" that provide dynamic, conext-aware links to on-line informaiton resources. Particualr attention will be given to work being carried out at the US National Institutes of Health with terminologies such as RxNorm and SNOMED-CT...
Bio Sketch:
Dr. James Cimino is a board certified internist who completed a National Library of Medicine informatics fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University and then went on to an academic position at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Presbyterian Hospital in New York. He spent 20 years at Columbia, carrying out clinical informatics research, building clinical information systems, teaching medical informatics and medicine, and caring for patients, rising to the rank of full professor in both Biomedical Informatics and Medicine. In 2008, he moved to the National Institutes of Health, where he is the Chief of the Laboratory for Informatics Development and a Tenured Investigator at the NIH Clinical Center and the National Library of Medicine. His principle project involves the development of the Biomedical Translational Research Information System (BTRIS), an NIH-wide clinical research data resource. In addition, he conducts clinical research informatics research, directs the NLM's postdoctoral training program in clinical informatics, participates in the Clinical Center's Internal Medicine Consult Service, and teaches at Columbia University as an Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Informatics. He is a Fellow (and currently President) of the American College of Medical Informatics, the American College of Physicians, the American Clinical and Climatological Association, and the New York Academy of Medicine.
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