Wednesday, December 07, 2005

Emergency Medical Ontology Project,

To be Proposed [PC1]

Rex,

Yes, we are all busy. I know that most individuals who I cc and bcc place my messages into a folder so that they can read when there is a pause in other things.

I have several small funding sources, lining up to support the Emergency Medical Ontology Project.

.... but the trick now is to really identify the complete scope of the problem related to "evolving medical knowledge interchanges" built on top of a very standard e-commerce type service oriented architecture (SOA) such as that discussed by the OASIS Nov 15th draft on ..Reference Models for Service Oriented Architectures. (I am posting this here, since I do not have the original URL for this document)

http://www.ontologystream.com/beads/healthInformatics/OasisDraft-SOA.pdf

Part of what might be possible now is to produce a working system, and yes using UDDI and ebXML as the infrastructure to "web services", for emergency response (with specific focus on the seasonal flu and the possible pandemic.) Note that the Bush administration’s new 7.1 B program targets the seasonal flu.

Dr Mike McDonald (Georgetown) has the right pedigree for being the lead on the proposal.

Rex, your work on human markup language is a vital part of the over all long term cognitive models work. I wonder if your group interacts with the SOAR group....

http://acs.ist.psu.edu/papers/haynesCR04.pdf

is one of this group's recent papers.

Metabolic pathway ontology (with function/structure) delineation is what would be regarded as useful by the hard core medical community.

So to recap.... we need two infrastructures

1) Service Oriented Architecture - likely following the OASIS draft

2) Behavioral Ontology with sufficient modeling capability so as to allow at least description of metabolic pathways

comments..?

Emergency Medical Ontology Project,

To be Proposed[PC1]

To be Proposed [PC1]