Main Themes & Sponsors
Under the broad theme of "Expanding Secondary Use of Health Data", we plan to explore research challenges and emerging solutions for handling health data from the point of origin (i.e., data collection) to the its presentation and manipulation. We are also interested in exploring a wide spectrum of health data – starting at the genomics and cellular level, to the patients’ level, and ultimately to the population level. Some specific topics that we will cover include:
- Data Acquisition: Capturing data and natural language processing
- Data Standards: Focus on limitations of current standards such as the HL7V3 standard but also potential utility of emerging standards
- Semantic Interoperability: Vocabularies, ontologies, and techniques for semantic level sharing of data
- Data Management: Beyond the capture stage, management challenges associated with scale, heterogeneity, distributed, and the fragmentary nature of data
- Data Presentation: Visual, adaptive, and optimal presentation of data for enhancing use and understanding
- Data Services: Emerging applications for supporting research, quality and safety management, public health studies, etc.
To encourage further research focused on improving health care information systems, NSF has provided funds to Indiana University to conduct a workshop in 2007, which aims to bring together experts from research, professional, and government sectors. The workshop will dedicate two days to individual and panel presentations and birds-of- feather events to identify and prioritize key challenges. We plan to invite current NSF and NIH grantees, academics with substantial track records in the area, industry experts, program managers in NIH and NSF, and other key government officials. Participants will have travel and accommodation paid. The workshop will be held on December 4th and 5th, 2007.
