National Ontology Meeting Hosted by UB in September 2016

On September 7 and 8 2017, the University at Buffalo will host the 5th annual workshop of the Clinical and Translational Science Ontology Group on the topic of

Clinical Terminology: Shock and Awe (C.T.S.A.).

The meeting is sponsored by the UB Department of Biomedical Informatics and the National Center for Ontological Research headquartered in Buffalo.

Discussions will center on usability and other problems with terminologies employed in clinical care and with the Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems that use them. Leading authorities in the field of clinical terminologies and EHR research will participate, including:

Olivier Bodenreider, MD, PhD
Chief of the Cognitive Science Branch of the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications
National Library of Medicine

and

Professor Stefan Schulz
Professor of Medical Informatics
Medical University of Graz, Austria

Dr Schulz will deliver a keynote address on the reliability of medical coding and on steps towards improvement.

The event provides an opportunity for Buffalo Translational Consortium researchers to interact with investigators at other Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Hubs. A major goal of the workshop is to address ways in which improvements in design and use of standards and EHRs can help to address the informatics and data sharing goals of the CTSA consortium.

More information can be found here.