Re: SenseLab note: some updates

2008-05-15 Thread Kei Cheung
Chris Mungall wrote: On May 15, 2008, at 4:39 PM, Kei Cheung wrote: Hi Vipul, Take the snomed term "Alzheimer's disease" (AD), for example. One axis may be used to indicate the progression of the disease. For example, http://www.memorystudy.org/alzheimers_stages.htm lists 7 stages o

Re: SenseLab note: some updates

2008-05-15 Thread Chris Mungall
On May 15, 2008, at 4:39 PM, Kei Cheung wrote: Hi Vipul, Take the snomed term "Alzheimer's disease" (AD), for example. One axis may be used to indicate the progression of the disease. For example, http://www.memorystudy.org/alzheimers_stages.htm lists 7 stages of Alzheimer's disease: n

Re: SenseLab note: some updates

2008-05-15 Thread Kei Cheung
Hi Vipul, Take the snomed term "Alzheimer's disease" (AD), for example. One axis may be used to indicate the progression of the disease. For example, http://www.memorystudy.org/alzheimers_stages.htm lists 7 stages of Alzheimer's disease: no memory loss symptom, very mild, mild, moderate, mod

RE: SenseLab note: some updates

2008-05-15 Thread Kashyap, Vipul
Kei, It's interesting that you bring up this notion. Most of the vocabularies in healthcare tend to be pre-coordinated, e.g., ICD9, CPT4. However there some compositional terminologies such as RxNorm and LOINC which has an underlying model with 6 axes. Snomed tries to be a post-coordinated ter

RuleML-2008

2008-05-15 Thread Adrian Paschke
Dear Colleagues, I'd like to draw your attention to RuleML-2008 and ask you to consider submitting a paper or demo (or both) to it. Please find below the link to the CFP. I would also like to ask you to forward the CFP to your colleagues. http://2008.ruleml.org D

Postdoctoral Fellow: Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences

2008-05-15 Thread Kei Cheung
Yale Center for Medical Informatics (YCMI; http://ycmi.med.yale.edu) is offering a postdoctoral fellowship at the Yale University School of Medicine sponsored by the National Library of Medicine (NLM; http://www.nlm.nih.gov/), starting July, 2008 or later. We are looking for a postdoctoral fell