[COAS-List] Alignment of OMG HDIF and COAS Submissions

["Jerome B. Soller, PhD" <soller@cognitech-ut.com>]

Dear COAS Submitters List,

At the last COAS submitter's team meeting in Salt Lake City, we promised
to work on instance examples of COAS:Observations and the calls to COAS
services to retrieve those Observations for antibiotic decision support
use scenarios (i.e. real-time decision support for one patient and
executive decision support over a population of patients).  We expect to
finish our initial attempt by January 4th.  If anyone has done similar
work laying out concrete examples, please e-mail them to us.  On January
4th, we will e-mail our examples to the entire group.

This will be one aspect of our harmonization between the CogniTech
initial OMG Healthcare Data Interpretation Facility (HDIF) response
(supported by Universidade federal de Sao Paulo, University of Sao Paulo
Medical School Hospital, CyberMed, William H. Brady (WHB) Clinics and
University of Utah Center for Human Genome Research) and the COAS
submission.  This response is one of four responses, which we predict
will be merged into the final submission.  All four responses are
available on
http://www.omg.org/techprocess/meetings/schedule/Healthcare_Data_Interpretation_RFP.html#Initial_Submission_Deadline

Other important areas for harmonization include:
1.  Constraint language access
2.  Uncertainty
3.  The conversion of an HDIF RunSet (engine, inputs, outputs and
runtime parameters) into a COAS:Observation (created by a system, not a
person).
4.  Input/Output models (IOSet models) from our HDIF proposal with COAS
equivalents.
5.  Ontology model (created by Fabiane Bizinella Nardon, MSc.  of
University of Sao Paulo Medical School Hospital and Beatriz de Faria
Leao, Md, PhD of Universidade federal de Sao Paulo).  Beatriz and
Fabiane envision the creation of ontology components to map sets of data
to representations of various information models (e.g. HL7 RIM/HL7
templates, ASTM, X12, CEN, DICOM, etc.).
6.  XML mappings

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Jerome B. Soller, Ph.D.
President, CogniTech Corporation
Phone: (801) 322-0101
Fax: (801) 322-0975
E-mail: soller@cognitech-ut.com
Web site: http://www.cognitech-ut.com/
"Baptism by Fire Isn't Kosher!"
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Tamara Y. Porter-Jones
Software Engineer, CogniTech Corporation
Phone: (801) 322-0101
Fax: (801) 322-0975
E-mail: tporter@eng.utah.edu
"Not all who wander are lost."
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