Re: Wait a sec...What about the HL7 RIM An Universal Exchange Language

2010-12-17 Thread dan russler
Good discussion on this thread...And timely...since more advanced business process orchestrations for web services and other internet technologies are penetrating the market. This gives an opportunity for newer implementation technologies like OWL and RDF to enhance the execution of business pr

Re: semantic web for EHRs

2010-03-12 Thread dan russler
There is interest in using RDF and OWL to support Semantic Web Services over the NHIN. Anyone interested in helping can contact me. Dan On 3/12/2010 8:40 AM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: conor dowling wrote: > U.S.? (There's little here from what I can see - the interoperability push is a

Re: Multi-layered Knowledge Representations for Healthcare (was RE: An argument for bridging information models and ontologies at the syntactic level)

2008-07-24 Thread Dan Russler
on that, then we can better evaluate the equivalent and non-equivalent semantics of OWL and the other methods for organizing sets of assertions. Dan Samson Tu wrote: Dan Russler wrote: Hi Samson, We are getting closer. 1) In the reference you site..."A class is the descriptor for a set&q

Re: Multi-layered Knowledge Representations for Healthcare (was RE: An argument for bridging information models and ontologies at the syntactic level)

2008-07-24 Thread Dan Russler
See below...Yes let's move on to more examples...Dan Kashyap, Vipul wrote: I agree with you below, except I think it's peoples' "interpretation" of the RIM that causes the confusion, e.g. "The focus of the RIM classes had primarily been structure and not semantics." Since RIM

Re: Multi-layered Knowledge Representations for Healthcare (was RE: An argument for bridging information models and ontologies at the syntactic level)

2008-07-24 Thread Dan Russler
Hi Vipul, I agree with you below, except I think it's peoples' "interpretation" of the RIM that causes the confusion, e.g. "The focus of the RIM classes had primarily been structure and not semantics." Since RIM is communicated in UML, UML semantic rules apply, and one needs to be strict on t

Re: Multi-layered Knowledge Representations for Healthcare (was RE: An argument for bridging information models and ontologies at the syntactic level)

2008-07-23 Thread Dan Russler
web: www.stanford.edu/~swt/ <http://www.stanford.edu/%7Eswt/> Center for Biomedical Informatics Research phone: 1-650-725-3391 Stanford University fax: 1-650-725-7944 On Jul 23, 2008, at 8:02 PM, Dan Russler wrote: Hi Samson, Sorry for my older-style jargon... Here is the Wikipedia entry on collection/aggregation. We often called these classes "collectors" in jargon:

Re: Multi-layered Knowledge Representations for Healthcare (was RE: An argument for bridging information models and ontologies at the syntactic level)

2008-07-23 Thread Dan Russler
oblems in Problem List), but that's a question separate from the semantics of a class. Matt, some of the terms (HL7 RIM, LOINC, OKBC) have specific meanings that you can look up by googling. I am confused about the layering of models that have been mentioned in this thread too. Samson Da

Re: Multi-layered Knowledge Representations for Healthcare (was RE: An argument for bridging information models and ontologies at the syntactic level)

2008-07-23 Thread Dan Russler
cise meaning of their relationships. I'd say that the relationship between Vipul's layer 1 and 2 is one of specialization, not instantiation. Samson Dan Russler wrote: Hi Samson, I agree...It is wrong to confuse the process of creating an instance in the narrow se

Re: Multi-layered Knowledge Representations for Healthcare (was RE: An argument for bridging information models and ontologies at the syntactic level)

2008-07-22 Thread Dan Russler
Hi Samson, I agree...It is wrong to confuse the process of creating an instance in the narrow sense (where the structural attributes and other attributes are constrained to specific values) and creating an incremental constraint on the structural attributes and code that allow one to define "m

Re: Multi-layered Knowledge Representations for Healthcare (was RE: An argument for bridging information models and ontologies at the syntactic level)

2008-06-25 Thread Dan Russler
sorry for the long delay...see below...Dan Kashyap, Vipul wrote: You are correct that classes in HL7 may have sub-classes. [VK] I think the interesting question is whether these classes are metaclasses, i.e., whether they belong to layer 1 or whether they are

Re: Multi-layered Knowledge Representations for Healthcare (was RE: An argument for bridging information models and ontologies at the syntactic level)

2008-06-03 Thread Dan Russler
Shared use is free [2] www.reengineeringllc.com/iblClient1.java <http://www.reengineeringllc.com/iblClient1.java> [3] www.reengineeringllc.com/WikiSOA.pdf <http://www.reengineeringllc.com/WikiSOA.pdf> Adrian Walker Reengineering On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Dan Ru

Re: Multi-layered Knowledge Representations for Healthcare

2008-06-03 Thread Dan Russler
t and continant. DanR Dan Corwin wrote: Dan Russler wrote: Actually, this list might be too long! Many of these break down on utility, at least on "easy to define and decide." Definitions for these discriminants are easy to find, in the same way one finds ontologies at levels

Re: The Elsevier Grand Challenge--Open Health Tools Academic Outreach

2008-06-03 Thread Dan Russler
previously, and it's very interesting. Susie On 6/2/08, Dan Russler <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: Hi Susie, This Challenge looks great. Open Health Tools is working on a challenge grant for Health Sciences as well...Perhaps there

Re: The Elsevier Grand Challenge

2008-06-02 Thread Dan Russler
Hi Susie, This Challenge looks great. Open Health Tools is working on a challenge grant for Health Sciences as well...Perhaps there are ways to learn from each of these kinds of activities? Here is the link to Open Health Tools and its Academic Outreach Project... www.openhealthtools.org

Re: Multi-layered Knowledge Representations for Healthcare (was RE: An argument for bridging information models and ontologies at the syntactic level)

2008-06-02 Thread Dan Russler
[1] Internet Business Logic A Wiki and SOA Endpoint for Executable Open Vocabulary English over SQL and RDF Online at www.reengineeringllc.com <http://www.reengineeringllc.com>Shared use is free Adrian Walker Reengineering On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Dan Russ

Re: Multi-layered Knowledge Representations for Healthcare

2008-06-02 Thread Dan Russler
Hi Dan, Actually, this list might be too long! Many of these break down on utility, at least on "easy to define and decide." Dan Kashyap, Vipul wrote: Physical vrs Informational Natural vrs Artificial Real vrs Imaginary Composite vrs Characteristic Individual vrs Collec

Re: Multi-layered Knowledge Representations for Healthcare (was RE: An argument for bridging information models and ontologies at the syntactic level)

2008-06-02 Thread Dan Russler
See below...Dan Kashyap, Vipul wrote: You are correct that classes in HL7 may have sub-classes. [VK] I think the interesting question is whether these classes are metaclasses, i.e., whether they belong to layer 1 or whether they are in layer 2. Classes and subclasses in a U

Re: Multi-layered Knowledge Representations for Healthcare (was RE: An argument for bridging information models and ontologies at the syntactic level)

2008-06-02 Thread Dan Russler
table Open Vocabulary English over SQL Online at www.reengineeringllc.com <http://www.reengineeringllc.com>Shared use is free Adrian Walker Reengineering On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Dan Russler <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: Hi Vipul, Peter

Re: An argument for bridging information models and ontologies at the syntactic level

2008-04-27 Thread Dan Russler
Hi Alan, Your points are well made regarding the provenance of information and the information itself. I captured this "assertion" as a point upon which to comment: "My main contention is that the things that we put in medical records represent statements "ascribing" (or "not ascribing") cha

Re: Multi-layered Knowledge Representations for Healthcare (was RE: An argument for bridging information models and ontologies at the syntactic level)

2008-04-24 Thread Dan Russler
Hi Samson, Here is some basic information on the use of HL7 RIM: You are correct that classes in HL7 may have sub-classes. To be more specific, by definition, once a class in HL7 is instantiated, the classCode and the moodCode can never be changed throughout the lifecycle of the instance. Th

Re: An argument for bridging information models and ontologies at the syntactic level

2008-04-24 Thread Dan Russler
Agreed...Peter already got us to changeOf course, I thought more people would confuse the term with "first order reaction" or "first order kinetics" than with "first order logic." Dan Pat Hayes wrote: At 10:46 AM -0400 4/21/08, Dan Russler wrote: Pet

Re: Multi-layered Knowledge Representations for Healthcare (was RE: An argument for bridging information models and ontologies at the syntactic level)

2008-04-22 Thread Dan Russler
Hi Vipul, Peter is right that the term "EAV" is a data schema implementation model, even though it maps directly to a classic proposition model with subject, predicate, and object of the predicate. Layer 0 then would be the most abstract layer consisting purely of formal propositions. In thi

Re: An argument for bridging information models and ontologies at the syntactic level

2008-04-21 Thread Dan Russler
Peter and Vipul...See below...dan Kashyap, Vipul wrote: IMHO, codes don't represent classes in some information model. An information model has classes like Observation, whose instances are clinical statements made by some entity (person or machine). I think information model

Re: An argument for bridging information models and ontologies at the syntactic level

2008-04-17 Thread Dan Russler
I agree, Vipul, that individual applications may decide (for reasons of performance or retrieval or other implementation specific reasons) to separate the notion of action from the notion of result of the action in order to reduce the amount of information retrieved. However, these separations

Re: An argument for bridging information models and ontologies at the syntactic level

2008-04-16 Thread Dan Russler
bnormal or becoming more normal." Now with this perspective, perhaps you can better describe how a disease is different than data? Dan Ogbuji, Chimezie wrote: A (perhaps) naive question, inline below. -Original Message- From: Dan Russler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Dirk,

Re: An argument for bridging information models and ontologies at the syntactic level

2008-04-11 Thread Dan Russler
Hi Chimezie, I've been watching this discussion. It parallels a discussion we had in HL7 in the 1990's. Some comments below: Ogbuji, Chimezie wrote: Dan, I've very familiar with the SOAP model. The primary motivation for my questions about assessment had more to do with distinguishing an

Re: [COI] Clinical Observations Interoperability Telcon December 18, Presentation of HL7/ RIM by Dan Russler

2007-12-16 Thread Dan Russler
i.e. able to reason across healthcare and life sciences data. Dan Lee Feigenbaum wrote: Dan Russler wrote: All, It will be really helpful to read the text in this wiki link before the presentation on Dec 18. I'm hoping that questions asked will come from people who have read the link:

Re: [COI] Clinical Observations Interoperability Telcon December 18, Presentation of HL7/ RIM by Dan Russler

2007-12-15 Thread Dan Russler
ended I add pictures to the text in this link...sorry they are not done yet) Thanks, Dan Russler Kashyap, Vipul wrote: The next Telcon will be held on December 18th, 11:00am - 12:00pm Phone +1 617 761 6200, conference 24668 ("BIONT") IRC irc://irc.w

Re: [COI] Architecture thoughts

2007-11-29 Thread Dan Russler
Just to let everyone know... There is now a new Open Source tooling organization called Open Health Tools. It is based on the Eclipse Public License and Eclipse development platform architecture. It is also in the process of producing an International EHR Reference Architecture model for

Re: [COI] Clinical Observations Interoperability Telcon November 20, Tuesday 11:00am - 12:00pm US EST

2007-11-27 Thread Dan Russler
Hi Vipul, I've added a few relevant HL7-related items to the wiki page. I'd also like to put out a request to someone knowledgable in OWL who might like to participate in an "HL7 RIM representation in RDF triples" exercise by donating complementary OWL expressions. Thanks, Dan Kashyap, Vip

Re: [COI] Clinical Observations Interoperability Telcon November 20, Tuesday 11:00am - 12:00pm US EST

2007-11-25 Thread Dan Russler
Will do...Dan Kashyap, Vipul wrote: That is not to argue that 2.x observation models or Arden decision support models are optimum in today's environment. We just need to recognize the history before inventing something new. [VK] We do not in

Re: [COI] Clinical Observations Interoperability Telcon November 20, Tuesday 11:00am - 12:00pm US EST

2007-11-25 Thread Dan Russler
Hi Vipul, Thanks for the clarification on the notes. See below for comments: Dan Kashyap, Vipul wrote: Dan, Thanks for pointing this out. Would like to clarify that these notes are taken by a scribe in a telcon and sometimes the context of the statement is not captured accurately.

Re: [COI] Clinical Observations Interoperability Telcon November 20, Tuesday 11:00am - 12:00pm US EST

2007-11-25 Thread Dan Russler
Hi All, I caught this quote from the Clinical Observation Interoperability Telcon that seems to be inaccurate: "Clinical research data and clinical care data from EMRs have different information models and different terminological standards. CDISC's Study Data Tabulation Model (SDTM), an eme

RE: Implications and Issues in Converting UML to RDF/OWL When Constructing HL7 RIM Ontology

2006-08-27 Thread DAN . RUSSLER
the kind of use case you were looking for?Dan Russler, M.D.VP Clinical InformaticsOracle(VM) 404-439-5983--- Original Message --- I agree with Helen. In general, we need to be very careful about translating from the UML to the OWL meta-model. It is quite likely that there are multipl

Re: Implications and Issues in Converting UML to RDF/OWL When Constructing HL7 RIM Ontology

2006-08-25 Thread DAN . RUSSLER
Subject RE: invitation for next ACPP call Thanks for the welcome Helen. I hope to learn a lot and perhaps, at least, contribute a little. I've been exploring transforms from UML to RDF and have found some resources. Do you have anything written on mappings or transforms from the