OMG(TM) today announced that a special event, Terminology Services Information Day, will be co-located with the OMG Technical Meeting in Long Beach, CA USA on December 8, 2009. For more information and to register for this special event, please visit http://www.omg.org/terminology-services-day.
The Terminology Services Information Day will explore terminology services in terms of their business purpose, their role in furthering the semantic web, and their importance in achieving true semantic interoperability, ending the day with an open forum roundtable discussion.
According to Christopher Chute, M.D., Dr.P.H., Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Mayo Clinic, and an industry-leader in the field of Medical Informatics, "Biomedical and clinical research increasingly involves collaborations that demand the sharing of comparable and consistent data across multiple organizations. A standardized set of terminology services is a critical component needed to attain this objective. I am encouraged to see that this need is now being recognized and addressed by the broader IT community."
Speakers on the program are distinguished professionals working in the semantic interoperability space, with industry experts from both within and outside of the healthcare domain. The session is intended for audiences with an interest in semantic technologies and in terminology and ontology usage and management. It will also serve as an introduction to Healthcare IT in the context of efforts that are internationally recognized as a target environment for e-health programs within and outside of the US.