This meesage is to ask a question of all memebers of the list and introduce myself at the same time. I not a medico but I am invloved in Health Informatics and have been encouraged to join the list by Tim Churches, and the NCCH whom I advise on IT matters. I hold the Chair of Langauge Technology at the Uni of Sydney so I come from a more technical background but not entirely. Apart from my IT education I have two degrees in psychology, am a registered psychologist in Victoria where I practiced as a therapist and so I have some experience with the issues of a professional practice. I also have a background in Lingusitics where I have written a grammar book of Basque. All of that adds up to making me a computational linguist. Some 9 months ago the NCCH asked me to assist them with problems with SNOMED CT. Subsequently, I have met with the Medical and Health Sciences Faculties and Sydney Uni and we are organising more co-ordinated research in a wider range of Helath Informatics topics with my team of 8 other academics. I have been monitoring the list for the last week and have been fed material by Tim Churches, and Donna Truran of NCCH for about 2 months before that.
The work at NCCH: NCCH has asked us if our langauge processing skills can assist them in building systems for mapping between SNOMED CT (SCT) and ICD 10AM in the first instance (other mappings have more recently been put on the table). After beginning the work with NCCH I met the Directors of the Family Medicine Research Centre and they asked us to assist in a similiar task for SCT to ICPC-2Plus mapping which we are doing. We have a set of projects running over the summer vacation with 10 of our advanced students funded by scholarships - I can provide details of all 10 projects to the list if you are interested. The mapping problems require repreatable systematic solutions so that they can be performed reliably with each version release of each terminology. However the form in which NCCH, FMRC and any other terminilogy groups releases it material can be enginerered to suit the prupose it is going to be used for, hence my question: If you had SCT avaiable in your destop EMR system what would you expect it to do, or a similar question, what would you expect the software to perform in exploting SCT for your purposes? cheers jon -- Jon Patrick Chair of Language Technology School of Information Technologies University of Sydney Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
